Increased longevity evolves from grandmothering

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1749, 2012, Pages 4880-4884

  Kim, Peter S ^a   Coxworth, James E ^b   Hawkes, Kristen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Human evolution; Life history; Sexual conflict

Indexed keywords

LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; LONGEVITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; PRIMATE; SEXUAL CONFLICT;

EID: 84869112407     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.1751     Document Type: Article

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