Testing evolutionary hypotheses about human biological adaptation using cross-cultural comparison

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 136, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 85-94

  Mace, Ruth ^a   Jordan, Fiona ^a   Holden, Clare ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Comparative method; Gene culture co evolution; Human sex ratio; Lactose tolerance; Maternal mortality; Natural selection; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

LACTOSE;

BIOLOGICAL TRAIT; CHILDBIRTH; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FERTILITY; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LACTOSE TOLERANCE; MORTALITY; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; REVIEW; SEX RATIO; SPECIES COMPARISON;

EID: 0142043282     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1095-6433(03)00019-9     Document Type: Review

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