Why is stress so deadly? An evolutionary perspective

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 273, Issue 1588, 2006, Pages 881-885

  Hadany, Lilach ^a,b   Beker, Tuvik ^a   Eshel, Ilan ^c   Feldman, Marcus W ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Altruism; Evolution; Stress; Stress related disease

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISM; ANALYTICAL METHOD; DISEASE; EVOLUTION; GENE; MODEL; STRESS;

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEATH; EVOLUTION; FLIGHT; GENE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FERTILITY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MENTAL STRESS; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL;

CULTURAL EVOLUTION; FERTILITY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 33745243274     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2005.3384     Document Type: Article

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