Life History

Different forms of life have different histories.

This is relevant to design, to justice via suffering (cf. Horta), to management or the support of autonomy, etc.

On trade-off and thus life histories:

Garland, Theodore, Cynthia J. Downs, and Anthony R. Ives. ‘Trade-Offs (and Constraints) in Organismal Biology’. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 95, no. 1 (2022): 82–112. https://doi.org/10/gq2vxr.

References

Roff, Derek A. The Evolution of Life Histories: Theory and Analysis. New York: Chapman & Hall, 1992.

Burger, Joseph Robert, Chen Hou, and James H. Brown. ‘Toward a Metabolic Theory of Life History’. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116, no. 52 (2019): 26653–61. https://doi.org/10/ggjk5k.