McNamara J M, Houston A I
School of Mathematics, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
Nature. 1996 Mar 21;380(6571):215-21. doi: 10.1038/380215a0.
Life-history theory is concerned with strategic decisions over an organism's lifetime. Evidence is accumulating about the way in which these decisions depend on the organism's physiological state and other components such as external circumstances. Phenotypic plasticity may be interpreted as an organism's response to its state. The quality of offspring may depend on the state and behaviour of the mother. Recent theoretical advances allow these and other state-dependent effects to be modelled within the same framework.
生活史理论关注生物体一生中的策略性决策。关于这些决策如何依赖于生物体的生理状态以及诸如外部环境等其他因素的证据正在不断积累。表型可塑性可被解释为生物体对其自身状态的一种反应。后代的质量可能取决于母亲的状态和行为。最近的理论进展使得这些以及其他与状态相关的效应能够在同一框架内进行建模。
