Abstract
Life history theory has become a prominent framework in the evolutionary social sciences, and the concept of trade-offs, the cornerstone of life history theory in studies on non-human taxa, has lik ...
Highlights
No other species attracts research interest from such a wide array of disciplines as humans
The cost of reproduction has been studied extensively across taxa over two centuries and in evolutionary biology, it has been used to test the central assumptions of life history theory
To study the evolutionary implications of trade-offs, it is necessary to disentangle the genetic basis of the traits involved
Summary
No other species attracts research interest from such a wide array of disciplines as humans. If different disciplines venture into the domains of each other without much communication, there is a risk of misapplying theories or methods that have been developed for decades in one field, before being applied in a new context in another field of enquiry. This inherent challenge in interdisciplinary research is underappreciated, yet highly relevant for research designed to understand the peculiar life history of humans.
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