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r-selection
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Etymology
Coined by the American ecologists Robert H. MacArthur and E. O. Wilson in 1967. The choice of the letter r came from rate.
Noun
- (ecology) A theory involving natural selection based on quantity.
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r/K selection theory on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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