How long do we live? How long do individuals in other species live? Do most individuals die young or live to ripe old ages? Survivorship curves visually answer these demographic questions. Imagine a ...

George Gaylord Simpson was one of the first paleontologists to apply survivorship analysis to the study of fossil taxa. His finding that the survivorship curve for extant bivalve genera plotted above ...

This lab provides a rich and flexible version of widely used demography exercises that have been previously based on data collected from cemeteries. This lab teaches life tables and survivorship ...