[Evolution of life cycle: models based on optimization of energy allocation].
A brief history of optimization approach in modern evolutionary ecology is given and author's own results concerning life history evolution are considered in more details. The problem of evolutionary optimization is formulated in terms of mathematical theory of optimal control as a problem of optimal sharing of organism's resources between growth, reproduction, repair, and maintenance. The Malthusian parameter is used as optimality criterion. This approach allows, in particular, to give evolutionary ecological explanations for some well known empirical facts such as attenuation of growth with age (law of Bertalanffi), acceleration of ageing with age (law of Gompertz), human sexual dimorphism in mean lifespan, age and size of maturity.
Terekhin
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Dept. of General Ecology, Biological Faculty, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow 119899, Russia. AT@ATeriokhin.home.bio.msu.ru
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D000375:Aging; D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D004734:Energy Metabolism / Q000502:physiology*; D006128:Growth; D015186:Hominidae / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D012098:Reproduction; D012727:Sex Characteristics