Demographic Consequences of Natural Selection

Abstract

From the standpoint of most people’s interests and perspectives, little need be added to the simple and elegant statement above. From the special perspective of a student of evolution, the statement seems a trifle parochial, and some qualifications and additions seem justified. It seems parochial in three respects, which we will call the dimensional, the ontogenetic, and the phylogenetic.

.... Let’s have a bloody good cry. And always remember the longer you live, The sooner you’ll bloody well die.

(from an old Irish ballad)