Evolutionary adaptations to pre-eclampsia/eclampsia in humans: Low fecundability rate, loss of oestrus, prohibitions of incest and systematic polyandry

American Journal of Reproductive Immunology

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 104-111

  Robillard, Pierre Yves ^a,d   Dekker, Gustaaf A ^b   Hulsey, Thomas C ^c  

^a Neonatology   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d CENTRE HOSPITALIER LYON SUD   (France)

Author keywords

Comparative studies; Consanguinity; Evolution; Marriage ethnology; Palaeoanthropology; Pre eclamp sia epidemiology; Pre eclampsia immunology

Indexed keywords

AGE; APE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR EFFECT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCEPTION; CONSANGUINITY; ECLAMPSIA AND PREECLAMPSIA; ESTRUS CYCLE; ETHNOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FEMALE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HOMINID; HUMAN; IMMUNOGENICITY; INCEST; INCIDENCE; MAMMAL; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; NONHUMAN; PATERNITY; POLYANDRY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY RATE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEXUAL CRIME; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; TROPHOBLAST;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; ECLAMPSIA; ESTRUS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HUMANS; INCEST; MARRIAGE; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; TROPHOBLASTS;

EID: 0036097547     PISSN: 87558920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0897.2002.1o043.x     Document Type: Review

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