Effect of maternal and grandmaternal care on population dynamics and human life-history evolution: A matrix projection model

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 364-376

  Pavard, Samuel ^a   Branger, Frédéric ^a  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

Evolution; Grandmaternal care; Life history theory; Maternal care; Matrix population model; Orphan and non orphan dynamics

Indexed keywords

FERTILITY; LIFE HISTORY THEORY; MATERNAL CARE; MORTALITY; NATURAL SELECTION; ORPHAN; SENESCENCE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL;

ARTICLE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SURVIVAL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

FEMALE; FERTILITY; HUMANS; INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84869828160     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: 10960325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2012.01.007     Document Type: Article

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