Lack, Skutch, and Moreau: The early development of life-history thinking

Condor

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 3-8

  Ricklefs, Robert E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Alexander Skutch; Clutch size; David Lack; History of biology; Life history theory; Reginald Moreau

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033961269     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1370403     Document Type: Article

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