Low fertility in humans as the evolutionary outcome of snowballing resource games

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 398-402

  Hill, Sarah E ^a   Reeve, H Kern ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Demographic transition; Evolution; Fertility declines; Game theory

Indexed keywords

FERTILITY;

EID: 14644413576     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/ari001     Document Type: Article

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