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

DOI10.1016/j.tpb.2020.01.003OpenAlexW2754625791MaRDI QIDQ2185204

Ulrich K. Steiner, Shripad D. Tuljapurkar

Publication date: 4 June 2020

Published in: Theoretical Population Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1101/188276

zbMATH Keywords

sensitivitylife history evolutionpopulation entropylife coursebiodemographyneutral variability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Biology and other natural sciences (92-XX)

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• Program MARK
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