Talk:R-K Life History Theory

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Ah, the article is already here; R/K selection theory, when I searched earlier I could not find it on wikipedia. Someone else should merge &/or redirect. My apologies. Nagelfar 04:34, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merge

This article is much more of a stub than R/K selection theory so should probably be merged into it. That said, it doesn't really contain anything extra, so a redirect might be better. The one extra thing it does introduce is attributing r-/K-selection to E. O. Wilson. I've had a quick check and apparently it stems back to a book by Robert MacArthur and E.O. Wilson from the late 1960s ("The Theory of Island Biogeography"), which in turn stems from a joint paper of their's from 1963. If no-one objects, I'll re-direct this article as suggested, and add this information about MacArthur and Wilson to R/K selection theory. Cheers, --Plumbago 10:12, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

I've just tracked down the 1963 paper, but it contains nothing about r/K. It's possible that the book does, but I've not got access to that to check. Anyone care to clarify this? --Plumbago 10:23, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Having now (finally) looked at Pianka (1970), it references MacArthur & Wilson's 1967 book as the source of r and K selection. I'll amend the R/K selection theory article appropriately, and merge this one into it. There's a snippet of the Pianka article available here. Cheers, --Plumbago 09:26, 1 March 2006 (UTC)