title: Life history
text: # Life history
  
  Life history may refer to:
  
  * Life history theory, a theory of biological evolution that seeks to explain aspects of organisms' anatomy and behavior by reference to the way that their life histories have been shaped by natural selection
  * Life history (sociology), the overall picture of an informant's or interviewee's life
  * Medical life history, information gained by a physician by asking specific questions of a patient
  