How grandmother effects plus individual variation in frailty shape fertility and mortality: Guidance from human-chimpanzee comparisons

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2010, Pages 8977-8984

  Hawkes, Kristen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolution of senescence; Heterogeneity of frailty; Human aging; Human life history; Menopause

Indexed keywords

AGING; CHIMPANZEE; FERTILITY; FRAIL ELDERLY; HUMAN; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; LIFE HISTORY; LONGEVITY; MENOPAUSE; MORTALITY; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SENESCENCE; ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAN TROGLODYTES; POSTMENOPAUSE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

HOMINIDAE; PAN;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGEVITY; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PAN TROGLODYTES; POSTMENOPAUSE;

EID: 77952397752     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0914627107     Document Type: Review

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