Abstract:High-quality developmental environments often improve individual performance into adulthood, but it is not clear what mediates these "silver spoon" effects. Furthermore, allocating toward early-life traits, such as growth, development rate, or reproduction, may lead to trade-offs with late life, so it is uncertain how a rich developmental environment will affect the ageing process (senescence). To investigate the effect of early-life environmental quality on life-history traits including senescence, and the tr… Show more
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