Trivers-Willard at birth and one year: Evidence from US natality data 1983-2001

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 274, Issue 1624, 2007, Pages 2491-2496

  Almond, Douglas ^a,b   Edlund, Lena ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Early life mortality; Human population; Sex allocation; Trivers Willard

Indexed keywords

BIRTH RATE; BREEDING POPULATION; INFANT MORTALITY; SEX ALLOCATION; SEX RATIO;

ARTICLE; CHILD DEATH; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; MARRIAGE; MATERNAL AGE; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SEX ALLOCATION; SEX RATIO; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34548772370     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.0524     Document Type: Article

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