Optimizing offspring: The quantity-quality tradeoff in agropastoral Kipsigis

Evolution and Human Behavior

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 391-410

  Mulder, Monique Borgerhoff ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolved mechanisms; Fertility; Inheritance; Life history theory; Parental investment

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034311796     PISSN: 10905138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s1090-5138(00)00054-4     Document Type: Article

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