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Wikipedia has a good synopsis of the concept in general: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_and_K_selection http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_and_K_selection Worth ke
by michaelochurch 12y ago
Wikipedia has a good synopsis of the concept in general: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_and_K_selection http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_and_K_selection
Worth keeping in mind is that most higher animals (humans included) aren't one or the other. It's a continuum. Higher animals tend toward r-selective patterns of behavior when under stress (to repopulate after a catastrophe) and K-selective patterns in stability.