Eric Charnov
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Eric Charnov's Degrees
- PhD Ecology University of California, Davis
- Masters Zoology University of California, Davis
- Bachelors Zoology University of California, Davis
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Eric Lee Charnov is an American evolutionary ecologist. He is best known for his work on foraging, especially the marginal value theorem, and life history theory, especially sex allocation and scaling/allometric rules. He is a MacArthur Fellow and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Two of his papers are Science Citation Classics.
Eric Charnov's Published Works
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Published Works
- Optimal foraging, the marginal value theorem. (1976) (4773)
- The theory of sex allocation. (1984) (3260)
- Effects of Size and Temperature on Metabolic Rate (2001) (3062)
- Grandmothering, menopause, and the evolution of human life histories. (1998) (1140)
- Optimal Foraging: Attack Strategy of a Mantid (1976) (1057)
- Life History Invariants: Some Explorations of Symmetry in Evolutionary Ecology (1993) (963)
- Effects of Body Size and Temperature on Population Growth (2004) (795)
- Effects of size and temperature on developmental time (2002) (791)
- Simultaneous hermaphroditism and sexual selection. (1979) (763)
- When is sex environmentally determined? (1977) (678)
- Ecological Implications of Resource Depression (1976) (675)
- Sex ratio evolution in a variable environment (1981) (659)
- A Biosocial Perspective on Paternal Behavior and Involvement (1987) (596)
- Allometric scaling of production and life-history variation in vascular plants (1999) (593)
- Optimal prey selection in the great tit (Parus major) (1977) (546)
- Life-History Consequences of Natural Selection: Cole's Result Revisited (1973) (546)
- Hunting by expectation or optimal foraging: A study of patch use by chickadees (1974) (539)
- Paternal Behavior in Humans (1985) (511)
- Why be an hermaphrodite? (1976) (423)
- Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality (2011) (402)
- Why do female primates have such long lifespans and so few babies? or Life in the slow lane (2005) (402)
- Alternative male life histories in bluegill sunfish. (1980) (392)
- Reaction norms for age and size at maturity in response to temperature: A puzzle for life historians. (1994) (352)
- The Genetical Evolution of Patterns of Sexuality: Darwinian Fitness (1979) (344)
- Evolution of life history variation among female mammals. (1991) (301)
- Security of infantile attachment as assessed in the “strange situation”: Its study and biological interpretation (1984) (265)
- Evolution of Host Selection and Clutch Size in Parasitoid Wasps (1984) (264)
- Patterns of Survival, Growth, and Maturation in Snakes and Lizards (1992) (247)
- Complementary Approaches to the Understanding of Parasitoid Oviposition Decisions (1985) (242)
- Thermodynamic and metabolic effects on the scaling of production and population energy use (2003) (231)
- Feedback with soil biota contributes to plant rarity and invasiveness in communities (2002) (229)
- Facultative sex ratios and population dynamics (1978) (214)
- How fundamental are Fisherian sex ratios (1988) (211)
- Sex change in plants: Old and new observations and new hypotheses (2004) (204)
- Similarity of Mammalian Body Size across the Taxonomic Hierarchy and across Space and Time (2004) (198)
- The Evolution of Alarm Calls: Altruism or Manipulation? (1975) (196)
- Reproductive constraints and the evolution of life histories with indeterminate growth (2001) (184)
- ON IRREVERSIBLE EVOLUTION (1985) (182)
- Optimal foraging: Some simple stochastic models (1982) (166)
- Evolutionary assembly rules for fish life histories (2013) (147)
- Natural Selection and Sex Change in Pandalid Shrimp: Test of a Life-History Theory (1979) (147)
- ON CLUTCH‐SIZE AND FITNESS (2008) (143)
- Changes in the heterogametic mechanism of sex determination (1977) (130)
- Evolution of eusocial behavior: offspring choice or parental parasitism? (1978) (120)
- An elementary treatment of the genetical theory of kin-selection. (1977) (117)
- The Offspring‐Size/Clutch‐Size Trade‐Off in Mammals (2006) (114)
- Sex ratio, sex change, and natural selection. (1976) (113)
- On the Evolution of Host Selection in Solitary Parasitoids (1988) (111)
- Optimal Foraging: Some Theoretical Explorations (2006) (110)
- Non-fisherian sex ratios with sex change and environmental sex determination (1989) (108)
- Response to Clarke and Fraser: effects of temperature on metabolic rate (2006) (103)
- Sex-Ratio Selection in Eusocial Hymenoptera (1978) (100)
- Population fluctuations, power laws and mixtures of lognormal distributions (2001) (100)
- ENIGMATIC REPTILIAN SEX RATIOS (1989) (94)
- Paternal inheritance of a daughterless sex ratio factor (1981) (88)
- The primary sex ratio under environmental sex determination. (1989) (88)
- Evolution of mammal life histories (2001) (87)
- Trade-off-invariant rules for evolutionary stable life histories (1997) (86)
- Phenotypic evolution under Fisher's Fundamental Theorem of Natural Selection (1989) (84)
- Lifetime Reproductive Effort (2007) (81)
- Body size and sex allocation in simultaneously hermaphroditic animals (2002) (80)
- Brood size adjustment in birds: Economical tracking in a temporally varying environment (1987) (79)
- Sperm competition and sex allocation in simultaneous hermaphrodites (1996) (79)
- On evolution of age of maturity and the adult lifespan (1990) (78)
- Evolution of life history parameters in animals with indeterminate growth, particularly fish (2005) (76)
- A trade-off-invariant life-history rule for optimal offspring size (1995) (76)
- Size and Temperature in the Evolution of Fish Life Histories1 (2004) (75)
- The male's dilemma: Increased offspring production is more paternity to steal (1995) (74)
- Optimal copula duration in yellow dung flies: effects of female size and egg content (1999) (70)
- Dimensionless numbers and life history evolution: Age of maturity versus the adult lifespan (1990) (69)
- Vole population cycles: A case for kin-selection? (1980) (69)
- Reproductive Allometry and the Size‐Number Trade‐Off for Lizards (2008) (67)
- Fish growth: Bertalanffy k is proportional to reproductive effort (2008) (66)
- Life history evolution in a recruitment population: why are adult mortality rates constant? (1986) (65)
- Some conceptual issues in the origin of eusociality (1986) (62)
- Dimensionless Numbers and the Assembly Rules for Life Histories: Discussion (1991) (62)
- Thermal time: Body size, food quality and the 10C rule (2003) (61)
- Dinosaur Fossils Predict Body Temperatures (2006) (61)
- Sex allocation, pollinator attraction and fruit dispersal in cosexual plants* (1986) (54)
- Dimensionless invariants for the optimal size (age) of sex change (2000) (52)
- Sex Change and Population Fluctuations in Pandalid Shrimp (1989) (50)
- correction: Allometric scaling of production and life-history variation in vascular plants (2000) (50)
- Multiple resources and the optimal balance between size and number of offspring (2005) (49)
- SEX RATIO SELECTION IN AN AGE‐STRUCTURED POPULATION (1975) (49)
- Fitness trade-offs select for semelparous reproduction in an extreme environment (2001) (48)
- Sex allocation in heterostylous plants (1982) (47)
- Reproductive effort, offspring size and benefit/cost ratios in the classification of life histories (2002) (46)
- Infant-Mother Attachment : The Origins and Developmental Significance of Individual Differences in Strange Situation Behavior (2013) (45)
- On sex allocation and selfing in higher plants (2005) (44)
- Kin selection in age-structured populations. (1981) (44)
- Size advantage may not always favor sex change. (1986) (43)
- A Circadian Output in Drosophila Mediated by Neurofibromatosis-1 and Ras / MAPK (2018) (41)
- Density-dependent invariance, dimensionless life histories and the energy-equivalence rule (2001) (40)
- Sexual systems and life history of barnacles: a theoretical perspective. (2012) (40)
- Dimensionless invariants from foraging theory's marginal value theorem. (1995) (40)
- A biosocial perspective on paternal care and involvement (1987) (39)
- How Much Is Enough? Hunters and Limited Needs (1985) (39)
- Parent-Offspring Conflict Over Reproductive Effort (1982) (35)
- Adaptive Variation in Environmental Sex Determination in a Nematode (1989) (35)
- Why do primates have such long lifespans and so few babies (1993) (33)
- Sex allocation in hermaphrodites with partial overlap in male/female resource inputs (1986) (31)
- Shrimp adjust their sex ratio to fluctuating age distributions (2002) (31)
- Alternative life-histories in protogynous fishes: a general evolutionary theory (1982) (30)
- Optimal offspring sizes in small litters (2005) (28)
- Sex‐specific survival to maturity and the evolution of environmental sex determination (2016) (28)
- Comment on "The Illusion of Invariant Quantities in Life Histories" (2006) (27)
- Kin selection and helpers at the nest: Effects of paternity and biparental care (1981) (27)
- A Life-History Approach to the Late Pleistocene Megafaunal Extinction (2013) (26)
- The M/k Ratio is the Same for Fish and Reptiles (1993) (26)
- Diversity–stability relationships revisited: scaling rules for biological communities near equilibrium (2001) (26)
- Relative Size At the Onset of Maturity (Rsom) Is an Interesting Number in Crustacean Growth (Decapoda, Pandalidae) (1990) (25)
- A Dimensionless Invariant for Relative Size at Sex Change in Animals: Explanation and Implications (2005) (25)
- Reproductive effort is inversely proportional to average adult life span (2005) (24)
- Sex allocation in a patchy environment: a marginal value theorem. (1985) (23)
- The Grandmother Hypothesis and Human Evolution (2017) (23)
- The optimal balance between growth rate and survival in mammals (2004) (22)
- Maternal Condition and Facultative Sex Ratios in Populations with Overlapping Generations (2006) (21)
- Clutch size in parasitoids: the egg production rate as a constraint (1988) (21)
- Sexuality and hermaphroditism in barnacles: A natural selection approach (2018) (19)
- A resource range invariance rule for optimal offspring size predicts patterns of variability in parental phenotypes. (1998) (19)
- Environmental Sex Determination with Overlapping Generations (1989) (18)
- An optimisation principle for sex allocation in a temporally varying environment1 (1986) (17)
- On Human Fertility: Individual or Group Benefit? (1988) (15)
- Hermaphroditic sex allocation with overlapping generations (1988) (14)
- Reproductive efficiencies in the evolution of life histories (2001) (14)
- Allometric aspects of population dynamics: A symmetry approach (1992) (14)
- The Theory of Sex Allocation. (MPB-18), Volume 18 (2020) (13)
- Local Mate Competition and Sex Ratio in the Diploid Worm Dinophilus (1987) (13)
- Natural selection on age of maturity in shrimp (1989) (12)
- Evolution of life-history variation among species of altricial birds (2000) (12)
- Trade-off-invariant rules for evolutionarily stable life histories[readible copy] (1997) (11)
- A Note on Sex and Life Histories (1981) (11)
- Comparing body-size growth curves: the Gallucci-Quinn index, and beyond (2010) (11)
- Group selection revisited (1986) (10)
- FISHING FOR APHIDS: THE EXPLOITATION OF A NATURAL POPULATION (1976) (8)
- Optimal flower lifetimes (1996) (8)
- Human hunting mortality threshold rules for extinction in mammals (and fish) (2011) (8)
- Pure numbers, invariants and symmetry in the evolution of life histories (1991) (8)
- Book Review:Biology as a Social Weapon. Ann Arbor Science for the People Editorial Collective (1978) (8)
- EVOLUTION OF THE BREEDING SEX RATIO UNDER PARTIAL SEX CHANGE (1989) (7)
- Individual differences in attachment (2013) (7)
- IN PARASITOID WASPS (2016) (7)
- Allometry: How reliable is the biological time clock? (2003) (7)
- Facultative sex ratio and population dynamics (1978) (7)
- Benevolent sisterhood (1988) (6)
- Alternative life histories in sex changing shrimp: a phenotype limited ESS (1987) (6)
- Optimal (plastic) life histories in growing versus stable populations (2009) (6)
- Sociobiology and Behavior.David P. Barash (1978) (5)
- Foraging decisions in a patchy environment (1989) (5)
- Body size is the history of life: growth confronting landscapes of death (2011) (5)
- Knowledge-independent Invariance Rules for Copula Duration in Dungflies (1999) (4)
- A note on dimensionless life histories for birds versus mammals (1995) (4)
- Convergent approaches to understanding strange situation behavior (1986) (4)
- Why are there essential amino acids and other nutrients (1984) (4)
- Phylogenetic contrasts and the evolution of mammalian life histories (1993) (4)
- Vole population cycles: Ultimate or proximate explanation? (1981) (3)
- The Economics of Sex@@@The Theory of Sex Allocation (1983) (3)
- Marginal Value: An Answer to Templeton and Lawlor (1981) (3)
- Shrimp equalize marginal payoffs in an evolutionary game with condition dependence (2004) (3)
- Average adult size in female lizards (2011) (2)
- Is maximum sustainable yield independent of body size for mammals (and others)? (1993) (2)
- Gompertz mortality, natural selection, and the ‘shape of ageing’ (2014) (2)
- Growth, mortality, and life-history scaling across species (2011) (2)
- Phylogenetic contrasts and the evolution of mammalian life histories (2005) (2)
- Parasitoids and Darwinian Theory (1994) (2)
- Mammal life-history evolution with size-dependent mortality (2005) (2)
- Some conceptual issues in the evolution of eusociality (1986) (1)
- Alternative reproductive tactics: state of the ART (2009) (1)
- Cohort-size/body-size scaling rules for stationary populations (2003) (1)
- Measuring Fitness in Social Systems Group Report (1980) (1)
- Book Review:The Use and Abuse of Biology. An Anthropological Critique of Sociobiology. Marshall Sahlins (1977) (0)
- Fish reproduction: patterns, puzzles, principles, and possibilities (2015) (0)
- 3. Sex Ratio and Discrete Generations (1983) (0)
- Some comments on “Sex allocation and selfing in higher plants” (1987) (0)
- Book Review:The Mechanism of Evolution: A New Look at Old Ideas. Maria de Issekutz Wolsky, Alexander Wolsky (1978) (0)
- Alternative male life histories in bluegill sunfish ( sexual selection / breeding systems / parental care / cuckoldry / frequency-dependent selection ) (0)
- 8. Conflict Situations for the Sex Ratio (1983) (0)
- Book Review:A Treatise on the Family. Gary S. Becker (1983) (0)
- A case for less selfing and more outbreeding in reviewing the literature (1983) (0)
- 16. Sex Types in Higher Plants (1983) (0)
- UNM Digital Repository UNM Digital Repository Average adult size in female lizards Average adult size in female lizards (2022) (0)
- REVIEWERS OF MANUSCRIPTS, 1978 (1978) (0)
- Studying the security of infant-adult attachment: A reprise (1984) (0)
- The offspring/clutch size tradeoff in mammals (2018) (0)
- In Memoriam (2011) (0)
- 14. Basic Discrete Generation Theory for Hermaphroditism (2020) (0)
- The Selfish Gene.Richard Dawkins (1977) (0)
- William S. Cooper Award: James C. Ritchie (1990) (0)
- Foraging decisions in a patchy environment [ readable copy] (1989) (0)
- 5. Sex Ratio in Spatially Structured Populations (1983) (0)
- Social behaviour in insects (1979) (0)
- The Bertalanffy growth equation: Theory of Paulys auximetric plots (2007) (0)
- Fish reproduction: patterns, puzzles, principles, and possibilities (2015) (0)
- Sociobiology's Successes (1996) (0)
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