Drivers of diversity in individual life courses:Sensitivity of the population entropy of a Markov chain

• Published in: Theoretical Population Biology
• Main Authors: Steiner, Ulrich K., Tuljapurkar, Shripad
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Biodemography; Life course; Life history evolution; Neutral variability; Population entropy; Sensitivity; Coats Island
• Online Access: https://portal.findresearcher.sdu.dk/da/publications/22cb94db-0336-4065-84eb-f52942f037c7; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tpb.2020.01.003; https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2017/09/13/188276.full.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1101/188276

Individuals differ in their life courses, but how this diversity is generated, how it has evolved and how it is maintained is less understood. However, this understanding is crucial to comprehend evolutionary and ecological population dynamics. In structured populations, individual life courses repr...