Theoretical research

Two linked frameworks for understanding selection, aging, and life-history design.

This site presents two manuscripts and their audio descriptions. The manuscript and audio files are archived on Zenodo; these pages use the permanent Zenodo records so the latest published versions remain accessible.

The Evolution of Selection

A framework describing how selection expands from physical interaction into algorithmic and cognitive forms of selection, including mate choice and other choice-based selective processes.

Read EOS

DESTA

The Dis-Economies of Scale Theory of Aging proposes that senescence is tied to growth termination, life-history integration, mate choice, and predation structure.

Read DESTA

Permanent Zenodo records

Each manuscript and each audio description has its own permanent Zenodo Concept DOI. When a new version is published on Zenodo, the Concept DOI continues to resolve to the latest version.