La evolución de las especies: estos animales no han cambiado
Los tiburones duende, por ejemplo, se consideran "fósiles vivientes" porque sus ancestros fósiles muestran que han permanecido igual durante los ...
Laurence Mueller
"Los entornos marinos... suelen considerarse un entorno más benigno, por ejemplo, que un entorno terrestre, que sin duda experimentará mayores fluctuaciones de agua, humedad, temperatura, cosas así", explica a Popular Mechanics <anchor>Laurence Mueller</anchor>, profesor de ecología y biología evolutiva de la Universidad de California Irvine.
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## Laurence D. Mueller

![Picture of Laurence D. Mueller](https://faculty.uci.edu/get_image?facultyId=2704)

Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

School of Biological Sciences


PH.D., University of California, Davis, 1979


OTH


Phone: (949) 824-4744, 5179


Fax: (949) 824-2181, 4744


Email: [ldmuelle@uci.edu](mailto:ldmuelle@uci.edu)

University of California, Irvine


401 SH


Mail Code: 2525


Irvine,
CA
92697


**Research Interests**

Theoretical and empirical studies of density-dependent natural selection, population stability and dynamics, DNA typing in forensic science


**Websites**

[Lab web page](https://darwin.bio.uci.edu/~mueller/)

**Academic Distinctions**

Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science


**Research Abstract**

My recent research has focused on the evolution of demography. With my colleague, Michael Rose, we have used both theoretical and experimental research to study late-life mortality and fecundity plateaus. We believe that evolution provides an explanation for why aging stops in late-life as well as why we age in the first place.


**Publications**

Mueller, L.D., P. Shahrestani, and C.L. Rauser. 2009. Predicting death in female Drosophila. Experimental Gerontology 44:766-772.


Mueller, L.D. 2008. Can simple population genetic models reconcile partial match frequencies observed in large forensic databases? Journal of Genetics 87:101-108.


Rose, M.R. and L.D. Mueller, 2006. Evolution and Ecology of the Organism. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey.


Mueller, L. D. and A. Joshi, 2000. Stability in Model Populations. Monographs in Population Biology No. 31, Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.


Mueller, L.D. 1997. Theoretical and empirical examination of density-dependent selection. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 28: 269-288.


Mueller, L. D. and M. R. Rose. 1996. Evolutionary theory predicts late-life mortality plateaus. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA 93:15249-15253.


Mueller, L. D., P. Z. Guo and F. J. Ayala. 1991. Density-dependent natural selection and trade-offs in life history traits. Science 253: 433-435.


**Professional Societies**

Society for the Study of Evolution


AAAS


**Link to this profile**

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**Last updated**

06/01/2010


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