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>>According to my ethology book (Ethology: the Mechanisms and Evolution
>>of Behavior by James L. Gould) the less-offspring/more-investment
>>strategy (called K-strategy) occurs in "habitats with relatively
>> (snip)
>>frankie
Grant said:
>That seems like a very abstract way of putting it. What do the
>letters "k" and "r" stand for? Social standing is just as important
>in my view as resources, although people with high social standing
>usually have access to more resources. I remember the marxist
>societies of China and Eastern Europe where salaries were pretty
>much fixed and not too far apart that social standing got one
>limosines to travel around in and a lot of privileges as far as
>things such as dachas in russia and superior housing in China. You
>don't have to own something if you have unlimited use of it. Just
>the privilege of going to the head of the line was worth a lot in
>the Soviet Union.
r stands for the species specific maximum growth rate. K stands for
the carrying capacity, where K is whatever resource sets the the
limit. There are a couple of mathematical equations and a graph
which I will not try to render in Eudora. But the book is one of my
all-time favorites, so I can't recommend it highly enough.
frankie
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