life history
One's complete story
Life history is the story of a person's life, typically told in full from birth to present or death.
In biology, life history refers to the complete cycle of developmental stages an organism passes through: The life history of the salmon includes spawning, migration, and return.
Scientists study life history traits—growth rate, reproduction timing, lifespan—to understand evolutionary strategies.
Self-penned life narrative
- memoirWritten personal recollection
- chronicleOrdered historical record
- narrativeAccount of events
- memoirsWritten personal history
profile · account · testimony · anecdote · legacy · diary · journal · documentary
Living biological entity
- developmentProgress toward maturity
- reproductionCopying or procreation
- mortalityState of eventual death
- ecologyStudy of environmental relations
survival · growth · maturation · senescence · fecundity · longevity · fitness · adaptation
autobiography
Self-penned life narrative
memoirs · profile · account · testimony · anecdote · legacy · diary · journal · documentary · biopic
organism
Living biological entity
- developmentProgress toward maturity
- reproductionCopying or procreation
- mortalityState of eventual death
ecology · survival · growth · maturation · senescence · fecundity · longevity · fitness · adaptation · demography
- ecologyhabitat, ecosystem, balance, niche, food webs
- natural historynaturalist, naturalists, natural philosophers, natural philosophy, flora
- biography termsmemoir, autobiography, profile, character sketch, personal narrative
- anthropologyanthropology, fieldwork, ethnography, social anthropology, cultural anthropology
- human biologygenetics, DNA analysis, nutrition, human evolution, human origins
- life writingmemoir, autobiography, memoirs, memoir writing, diaries
life historysnapshot
Informal photograph taken quickly
moment · instant · point in time · cross-section · episode
life, history, lifetime, lives, biography, lifelong, livelihood, lifeline, lifespan