Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In biology: The series of vital phenomena exhibited by an organism in the course of its development from the egg to its adult state.
- noun The written description of a life-history; morphological “natural history.”
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Examples
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Three possible reasons for the record sightings come to mind, says Wayne Perryman, who leads the cetacean health and life-history program at the Southwest Fisheries Service Center in La Jolla, Calif., a unit of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Counting the Whales, Passing the Time Miriam Jordan 2012
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Why, there is romance in the life-history of any grass, yes, and adventure, too.
Chapter 14 2010
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If a teacher records the alcohol-and-water sequence to its conclusion, the student is not going to get the teacher's life-history and tastes in fruit along with his lesson in physics.
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Here, simulations confirm those results under weaker assumptions and explore how different social arrangements shape life-history evolution.
Archive 2008-06-01 2008
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The abundance, detailed distribution of the new form, and its life-history characteristics are not known, and further studies clearly are needed to determine its conservation status.
Archive 2008-11-01 2008
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The timing of life-history events in a changing climate.
Climate change and reindeer nomadism in Finnmark, Norway 2010
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Here, simulations confirm those results under weaker assumptions and explore how different social arrangements shape life-history evolution.
Some Links 2008
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In particular, he examined the role of sibling rivalry as an agent of selection on developmental rates, nest-site selection as a source of maternal effects in birds, and habitat-specific variation in life-history traits arising from the spread of a non-native plant.
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Let us suppose that this present year 1867 sic: I suspect this is a scanning error had been the particular epoch in the projected life-history of the world, which the Creator selected as the era of its actual beginning.
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Examples include life-history strategies incorporating resting stages and diapause, unique physiological mechanisms to store energy and nutrients, an ability to grow and reproduce quickly during brief growing seasons, and extended life spans relative to more temperate species.
Introduction to freshwater ecosystems and fisheries in the Arctic 2009
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