Explaining the optimality of U-shaped age-specific mortality

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 171-180

  Chu, C Y Cyrus ^a   Chien, Hung Ken ^b   Lee, Ronald D ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ECONOMICS   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c Departments of Demography and Economics   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolution of mortality; Infant mortality; Intergenerational transfers; Optimal life history; Parental care; Parental investment; Postreproductive survival; Senescence

Indexed keywords

AGE CLASS; FERTILITY; FITNESS; GROWTH RATE; INFANT MORTALITY; LIFE HISTORY; MORTALITY; MUTATION; PARENTAL INVESTMENT; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SENESCENCE; SURVIVAL;

AGING; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; FERTILITY; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MORTALITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AGING; ANIMALS; DEMOGRAPHY; FERTILITY; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MORTALITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; SURVIVAL;

EID: 39149094612     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: 10960325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2007.11.005     Document Type: Article

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