Slow development as an evolutionary cost of long life

Summary Life‐history theory predicts a trade‐off between early‐life fitness and life span. While the focus traditionally has been on the fecundity‐life span trade‐off, there are strong reasons to expect trade‐offs with growth rate and/or development time. We investigated the roles of growth rate and development time in the evolution of life span in two independent selection experiments in the outcrossing nematode Caenorhabditis remanei . First,...