Primate milk: Proximate mechanisms and ultimate perspectives

Evolutionary Anthropology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 9-23

  Hinde, Katie ^a   Milligan, Lauren A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Infant development; Lactation; Life history; Maternal investment; Reproductive ecology

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ENERGY METABOLISM; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HORSE; HUMAN; LACTATION; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MILK; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIMATE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ENERGY METABOLISM; EQUIDAE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LACTATION; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MILK; PRIMATES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; PRIMATES;

EID: 79951832476     PISSN: 10601538     EISSN: 15206505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/evan.20289     Document Type: Article

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