Darwin was right: Inbreeding depression on male fertility in the Darwin family

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 474-483

  Álvarez, Gonzalo ^a   Ceballos, Francisco C ^a   Berra, Tim M ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Human fertility; Zero inflated regression models

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FAMILY STRUCTURE; FERTILITY; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; INBREEDING; MALE BEHAVIOR; MARRIAGE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84921469863     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/bij.12433     Document Type: Article

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