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    • Mathematical Biology

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    • Generation time is a key demographic parameter but has multiple definitions for structured populations.
    • Existing measures lack a unified understanding of their relationships and applicability across different population structures.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To generalize existing generation time formulas to continuous or continuous-discrete population structures.
    • To derive new formulas for established generation time measures.
    • To clarify the relationships and conditions under which different generation time measures are identical.

    Main Methods:

    • Generalization of François Bienvenu and Stéphane Legendre's Ta formula.
    • Derivation of formulas for average parent age at birth and mean parent age for cohorts and generations.
    • Application to continuous and continuous-discrete population models.

    Main Results:

    • A generalized formula for Ta (average time between births in an ancestral lineage) applicable to varied population structures.
    • New formulas derived for three other generation time measures.
    • Demonstration that these distinct generation time measures are frequently identical in value.

    Conclusions:

    • The generalized formulas provide a unified framework for understanding generation time in diverse population structures.
    • The findings reveal unexpected commonalities between different generation time metrics.
    • This work clarifies the distinctions and equivalencies among various generation time definitions in population dynamics.