Mortality and fertility rates in humans and chimpanzees: How within-species variation complicates cross-species comparisons

American Journal of Human Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 578-586

  Hawkes, Kristen ^a   Smith, Ken R ^b   Robson, Shannen L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; FEMALE FERTILITY; GRANDPARENT; HUMAN; LONGEVITY; MATERNAL AGE; MENOPAUSE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SENESCENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MORTALITY; PAN TROGLODYTES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

HOMINIDAE; PAN;

EID: 70349392806     PISSN: 10420533     EISSN: 15206300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.20890     Document Type: Article

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