Does exceptional human longevity come with a high cost of infertility? Testing the evolutionary theories of aging

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1019, Issue , 2004, Pages 513-517

  Gavrilova, Natalia S ^a   Gavrilov, Leonid A ^a   Semyonova, Victoria G ^a   Evdokushkina, Galina N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolutionary theory of aging; Higher infertility rates

Indexed keywords

CHILDBIRTH; CONFERENCE PAPER; DATA ANALYSIS; EUROPE; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENEALOGY; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; LIFESPAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LONGEVITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PREDICTION; QUALITY CONTROL; THEORY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 3242669668     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1297.095     Document Type: Conference Paper

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