Life, Death and Energy: Nature Selects No Free Lunch

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Authors

Indrė Žliobaitė 

Abstract

Brown et al. (2024) highlight that organisms invest a constant amount of energy into the production of viable offspring per unit of body mass per generation. This explains how diversity in life can exist. We interpret their result in relation to balancing offspring costs in real vs. physiological time.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.32942/X2105T

Subjects

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Evolution, Other Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Keywords

macroecology, Macroevolution

Dates

Published: 2024-11-25 10:54

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CC BY Attribution 4.0 International

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English