3 citations · 3 across the 2 of their papers we have counts for
3 papers
q-bio.PE2009
Female Fertility and Longevity
Josh Mitteldorf
Does bearing children shorten a woman's life expectancy? Several demographic studies, historic and current, have found no such effect. But the Caerphilly cohort study is far the mo…
q-bio.PE2006★ 3 cited
Demographic Homeostasis and the Evolution of Senescence
Josh Mitteldorf
Existing theories for the evolution of aging and death treat senescence as a side-effect of strong selection for fertility. These theories are well-developed mathematically, but fi…
q-bio.PE2005
Another Way to Calculate Fitness from Life History Variables: Solution of the Age-Structured Logistic Equation
Josh Mitteldorf
r-selection refers to evolutionary competition in the rate of a population's exponential increase. This is contrasted with K-selection, in which populations in steady-state compete…