title: Costs of reproduction in a historical perspective.
abstract: Costs of reproduction constitute a core assumption of life history theory. After reformulation by G.C. Williams, the cost hypothesis soon became a major foundation of phenotypic life history models. More-recent studies have approached reproductive costs from the perspective of quantitative genetics. Here, we present a brief historical perspective to the development of the cost of reproduction hypothesis. We evaluate the status and heuristic value of the different approaches, and outline how the approaches have originated.
authors.affiliation: K. Jönsson and J. Tuomi are at the Dept of Ecology, Lund University, S-223 62 Lund, Sweden.
authors.forename: K I
authors.initials: KI
authors.lastname: Jösson
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Tuomi