DENSITY DEPENDENCE, EVOLUTIONARY OPTIMIZATION, AND THE DIVERSIFICATION OF AVIAN LIFE HISTORIES

The genetical evolution of social behaviour. I

1964 • 15,639 citations

The Evolution of Life-histories

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Phylogenies and the Comparative Method

1985 • 9,661 citations

Parental Investment and Sexual Selection

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Evolution and the Theory of Games

1988 • 8,244 citations

Sexual Selection and the Descent of Man

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Evolution and the Theory of Games

1982 • 6,405 citations

Mate selection—A selection for a handicap

1975 • 5,212 citations

The comparative method in evolutionary biology

1992 • 5,093 citations

Parent-Offspring Conflict

1974 • 4,102 citations

Adaptation and Natural Selection

2008 • 4,032 citations

Heritable True Fitness and Bright Birds: A Role for Parasites?

1982 • 3,696 citations

Ecological Adaptations for Breeding in Birds

1970 • 3,689 citations

Extraordinary Sex Ratios

1967 • 3,591 citations

Natural Selection, the Costs of Reproduction, and a Refinement of Lack's Principle

1966 • 3,191 citations

The natural regulation of animal numbers

1972 • 3,088 citations

The theory of sex allocation.

1982 • 2,950 citations

Size, Function, and Life History

1984 • 2,916 citations

The distribution and abundance of animals

1974 • 2,811 citations

Metapopulation dynamics

1998 • 2,532 citations

The theory of games and the evolution of animal conflicts

1974 • 2,353 citations

QUANTITATIVE GENETIC ANALYSIS OF MULTIVARIATE EVOLUTION, APPLIED TO BRAIN:BODY SIZE ALLOMETRY

1979 • 2,334 citations

The moulding of senescence by natural selection

1966 • 2,252 citations

Procedures for the Analysis of Comparative Data Using Phylogenetically Independent Contrasts

1992 • 2,193 citations

The Population Consequences of Life History Phenomena

1954 • 2,077 citations

Metapopulation Biology: Ecology, Genetics, and Evolution.

1997 • 2,044 citations

The Significance of Clutch-size

1947 • 2,029 citations

Animal Dispersion in Relation to Social Behaviour

1962 • 2,008 citations

Group Selection and Kin Selection

1964 • 2,003 citations

The strategy of the genes

1957 • 2,000 citations

The Units of Selection

1970 • 1,857 citations

Population Studies of Birds

1967 • 1,799 citations

Evolution in age-structured populations

1995 • 1,793 citations

An analysis of nesting mortality in birds

1969 • 1,793 citations

Life Historical Consequences of Natural Selection

1970 • 1,650 citations

Morphology, Performance and Fitness

1983 • 1,637 citations

The Balance of Animal Populations.—Part I.

1935 • 1,608 citations

Asymmetry, Developmental Stability, and Evolution

1997 • 1,261 citations

THE EVOLUTION OF PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY IN LIFE‐HISTORY TRAITS: PREDICTIONS OF REACTION NORMS FOR AGE AND SIZE AT MATURITY

1986 • 1,175 citations

Living fast and dying young: A comparative analysis of life‐history variation among mammals

1990 • 1,157 citations

A GENERAL THEORY OF CLUTCH SIZE

1966 • 1,026 citations

THE REGULATION OF NUMBERS OF TROPICAL OCEANIC BIRDS

1963 • 900 citations

Evolution in Age-Structured Populations.

1995 • 803 citations

Lifetime Reproduction in Birds

1992 • 803 citations

DO TROPICAL BIRDS REAR AS MANY YOUNG AS THEY CAN NOURISH ?

1949 • 775 citations

The Natural Selection of Populations and Communities.

1981 • 764 citations

Life History Invariants: Some Explorations of Symmetry in Evolutionary Ecology

1993 • 721 citations

EFFECTIVE DEME SIZES DURING LONG-TERM EVOLUTION ESTIMATED FROM RATES OF CHROMOSOMAL REARRANGEMENT

1979 • 716 citations

Optimal Reproductive Effort in Fluctuating Environments

1974 • 687 citations

Supplement: the Balance of Animal Populations

1933 • 683 citations

Avian growth and development : evolution within the altricial-precocial spectrum

1998 • 619 citations

A Critical Review of the Models of Group Selection

1978 • 594 citations

Selection for colonizing abilitty.

1965 • 534 citations

Why de young birds reproduce less well?

1983 • 532 citations

The Group Selection Controversy: History and Current Status

1983 • 509 citations

Theory of Fitness in a Heterogeneous Environment. I. The Fitness Set and Adaptive Function

1962 • 459 citations

Brood Size Manipulations in the Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus): Effects on Offspring and Parent Survival

1990 • 435 citations

The balance of animal population

1933 • 360 citations

Selection for colonizing ability.

1965 • 351 citations

Evolutionary Theories of Aging: Confirmation of a Fundamental Prediction, with Implications for the Genetic Basis and Evolution of Life Span

1998 • 348 citations

Clutch‐size: A Comparative Study, with Special Reference to African Birds

1944 • 239 citations

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF CLUTCH‐SIZE. P<scp>art</scp> III.—S<scp>ome</scp> I<scp>nterspecific</scp> C<scp>omparisons</scp>

1948 • 226 citations

Pattern of covariation between life-history traits of European birds

1988 • 210 citations

On the Evolution of Reproductive Strategies in Birds: Reproductive Effort

1977 • 199 citations

Intergroup Selection in the Evolution of Social Systems

1963 • 191 citations

Age Specificity and Ecological Theory

1970 • 181 citations

Sibling Competition, Hatching Asynchrony, Incubation Period, and Lifespan in Altricial Birds

1993 • 173 citations

Components of Avian Breeding Productivity

1977 • 118 citations

Island Biology Illustrated by the Land Birds of Jamaica David Lack

1977 • 86 citations

Role of environmental variability in the evolution of life history strategies

1979 • 73 citations

An Experimental Analysis of Small Clutch Size in Tropical House Wrens

1996 • 67 citations

Comparative Avian Demography

1983 • 61 citations

Structures and Transformations of Life Histories

1991 • 60 citations

Lack's Clutch Size Hypothesis and Brood Enlargement Studies on Colonial Seabirds

1989 • 57 citations

A note on the evolution of clutch size in altricial birds

1977 • 48 citations

COMMENTS ON MR. SKUTCH'S PAPER ON CLUTCH‐SIZE

1949 • 25 citations

Do Variable Environments Significantly Influence Optimal Reproductive Effort in Birds?

1994 • 25 citations

Testing life-cycle theory by computer simulation—II. Bet-hedging revisited

1991 • 10 citations

Models for growth

1998 • 2 citations

Deleted Work

1955 • 0 citations