Hadza women's time allocation, offspring provisioning, and the evolution of long postmenopausal life spans

Current Anthropology

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 551-577

  Hawkes, K ^a   O'Connell, J F ^a   Blurton Jones, N G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1086/204646     Document Type: Review

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