Evolutionary shaping of demographic schedules

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

Volumn 111, Issue SUPPL.3, 2014, Pages 10846-10853

  Wachter, Kenneth W ^a   Steinsaltz, David ^b   Evans, Steven N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biodemography; Evolutionary demography; Genetic load; Hazard functions; Senescence

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; LIFE HISTORY; MUTATION; MUTATION RATE; NATURAL SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SURVIVAL; THEORY;

BIODEMOGRAPHY; EVOLUTIONARY DEMOGRAPHY; GENETIC LOAD; HAZARD FUNCTIONS; SENESCENCE;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; ALLELES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; REPRODUCTION; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84904639403     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1400841111     Document Type: Article

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