The Comparative Demography of Primates: With Some Comments on the Evolution of Life Histories

Annual Review of Anthropology

Volumn 27, Issue , 1998, Pages 197-221

  Gage, Timothy B ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Fertility; Modeling; Mortality; Population dynamics; Stability

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEMOGRAPHY; FERTILITY; GENETICS; LITERATURE REVIEW; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESEARCH; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BIOLOGY; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; FERTILITY; GENETICS; LITERATURE REVIEW; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MORTALITY; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY;

BIOLOGY; DEMOGRAPHY; FERTILITY; GENETICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MORTALITY; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESEARCH;

EID: 0032227287     PISSN: 00846570     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.anthro.27.1.197     Document Type: Review

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