Category: The Equal Fitness Paradigm

This paper was written by James Brown, Charles A. S. Hall, and Richard Sibly and published in 2018. This is one of the first papers that describes the equal fitness paradigm (EFP), which explains how energy is used by organisms in accordance with biological scaling relations to produce surviving offspring. The authors provide evidence that…

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This paper was written by James H. Brown, Chen Hou, Charles A. S. Hall, and Joseph R. Burger and published in 2024. In this paper, the authors describe a new paradigm in evolutionary studies: the Equal Fitness Paradigm, which “quantifies how organisms convert biomass into surviving offspring.” The abstract of the paper states: “Evolutionary biology…

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