*Life History Theory course* You can now register for the course 'Life History Theory', organised by the Research School Ecology and Evolution of Institute GELIFES , University of Groningen, the Netherlands. *Dates* The course starts the 25th of January and ends Friday the 30th of January 2026. *Registration and more information:* https://www.rug.nl/research/ecology-and-evolution/phdcourses/lifehistorytheory?lang=en *Aim of the course* Life History Theory deals with species-specific adaptive schemes of the distribution of the reproductive effort over the life of an organism. The general theoretical problem is to predict which combination of traits will evolve under specific conditions. The concepts used are also relevant to study within species variation in life history traits. The one week course aims at giving an overview of the field and will discuss methodology and recent developments. *Contents & Structure* The subject will be worked out on the basis of lectures, case histories, discussion and literature. The contact with current research projects is guaranteed as concrete examples will be treated by scientists working in the field. A lot of discussed examples refer to birds, but attention will also be paid to other groups of organisms, such as humans, fishes, insects and plants. In poster sessions work and/or plans of the participating students will be discussed with the whole group and we will use computers to illustrate some of the concepts. *More information:* - *Simon Verhulst - *BPE Group, Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences (GELIFES), University of Groningen. - Magdalena Kozielska-Reid - Coordinator Research School Ecology and Evolution (GELIFES), University of Groningen Kind regards, *Tineke de Boer* *Office Assistant Research School Ecology and Evolution (RSEE) & **Assistant to Dr. Magdalena Kozielska-Reid* University of Groningen Faculty of Science and Engineering *Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences (GELIFES)* Nijenborgh 7 9747 AG Groningen The Netherlands Building 5171, room 0158 P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. "de Boer, Tineke" (to subscribe/unsubscribe the EvolDir send mail to golding@mcmaster.ca)