"Life history space": A multivariate analysis of life history variation in extant and extinct malagasy lemurs

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 142, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 391-404

  Catlett, Kierstin K ^a   Schwartz, Gary T ^a,b   Godfrey, Laurie R ^c   Jungers, William L ^d  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^d STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Age at weaning; Brain size; Daubentonia; Dental development; Gestation length; Hadropithecus; Interbirth interval; Madagascar; Mesopropithecus; Reproductive rate

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; BRAIN SIZE; EXTANT SPECIES; MADAGASCAR; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIMATE; PROSIMIAN; REPRODUCTION; SPECIES EXTINCTION; TOOTH DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; BIRTH INTERVALS; BODY WEIGHT; BONE AND BONES; BRAIN; FOSSILS; GESTATIONAL AGE; MADAGASCAR; MOLAR; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ORGAN SIZE; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; STREPSIRHINI; WEANING;

DAUBENTONIA; HADROPITHECUS; LEMUR; LEMURIDAE; MAMMALIA; MESOPROPITHECUS; PRIMATES; STREPSIRHINI;

EID: 77951879950     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.21236     Document Type: Article

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