Explore this timeline to ... ages tried to explain how traits are passed from generation to generation. Warning: It gets weird. Before we jump into how wrong many of history's great thinkers ...

124). The theory does so by analyzing the evolution of fitness components, so-called life history traits, and how they interact: size at birth; growth pattern; age and size at maturity ...

To study ecology without an understanding of evolutionary theory is to ... similar traits and gene sequences may recur at different moments in biological history, but this is still just evolution ...