The ecology and evolutionary endocrinology of reproduction in the human female

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 140, Issue SUPPL. 49, 2009, Pages 95-136

  Vitzthum, Virginia J ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

adaptation; fecundity; life history theory; ovarian functioning; reproductive ecology

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; FOLLITROPIN; HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROGESTERONE; SEX HORMONE; GONADOTROPIN;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ACUTE STRESS; ADAPTATION; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BIOMETRY; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHRONIC STRESS; CONCEPTION; DEMOGRAPHY; DIET; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; ENDOCRINOLOGY; EPIGENETICS; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; ESTROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; FOLLICULAR PHASE; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN REPRODUCTIVE ECOLOGY; HYPOTHALAMIC PITUITARY OVARY AXIS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; LACTATION; LIFE HISTORY; LUTEAL PHASE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MENSTRUATION; NATURAL SELECTION; OVARY CYCLE; OVARY FUNCTION; OVULATION; PALEOECOLOGY; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; REPRODUCTION; SALIVA; SAMPLE SIZE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; URINALYSIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; BLOOD; GENETICS; MIDDLE AGED; OVARY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; THEORETICAL MODEL; URINE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANTHROPOLOGY, PHYSICAL; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GONADOTROPINS; HUMANS; MENSTRUATION; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OVARY; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 70449567247     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.21195     Document Type: Article

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