Pooled energy budget and human life history

American Journal of Human Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 421-429

  Reiches, Meredith ^a   Ellison, Peter ^a   Lipson, Susan F ^a   Sharrock, Katherine C ^a   Gardiner, Eliza ^a   Duncan, Laura G ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BREEDING; CHILD GROWTH; ENERGY METABOLISM; FERTILITY; HUMAN; LACTATION; LIFE HISTORY; METABOLIC RATE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PREGNANCY; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR; ECOSYSTEM; ENERGY METABOLISM; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

PRIMATES;

EID: 70349383328     PISSN: 10420533     EISSN: 15206300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.20906     Document Type: Article

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