Grandmothering, menopause, and the evolution of human life histories

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 1336-1339

  Hawkes, K ^a   O'Connell, J F ^a   Blurton Jones, N G ^b   Alvarez, H ^a   Charnov, E L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; CHILD REARING; CONFERENCE PAPER; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFESPAN; MENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENESCENCE; SOCIAL STRUCTURE;

MAMMALIA; PRIMATES;

EID: 0032477742     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.95.3.1336     Document Type: Article

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