- The first theory of natural selection that suggests that simple self-replicators automatically evolve toward the complex organisms on Earth
- The simplest most general life history theory: The single mechanism of density dependent competitive interactions explains major life history transitions in mobile organisms
- Provides a single-species mechanism for the population cycles that have fascinated ecologists for decades
- Based on Continuously Stable Strategies and Long-term Evolutionary Stability
- Proposed in bookform in 1997 by Lars Witting
"a fascinating portrachted argument which may well be correct" -- Anonymous reviewer
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