A critique of the grandmother hypotheses: Old and new

American Journal of Human Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 434-452

  Peccei, Jocelyn Scott ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FITNESS; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LIFESPAN; LONGEVITY; MENOPAUSE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; REPRODUCTION; SENESCENCE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FAMILY; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENDER IDENTITY; HELPING BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; LONGEVITY; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NUCLEAR FAMILY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PRIMATES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 0034956883     PISSN: 10420533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.1076     Document Type: Article

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