Stress and trade-offs explain life’s diversity: A new model

Plants and people alike face critical choices as they reproduce: to make a few big, well-provisioned seeds — or babies — or many small, poorly-provisioned ones. Different species make strikingly different choices, resulting in a great diversity of life forms: Darwin’s “endless forms most beautiful. New research argues that these diverse strategies coexist because different [...] http://bit.ly/cKwUu9