The grandmother effect

Gerontology

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 375-377

  Lachmann, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cultural evolution; Grandmothers; Modal age at death

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; LIFESPAN; LONGEVITY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; FAMILY RELATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONS; LONGEVITY; PARENTING; POSTMENOPAUSE; QUALITY OF LIFE; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 79959670671     PISSN: 0304324X     EISSN: 14230003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000324242     Document Type: Article

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