The environment and life history strategies: Neighborhood and individual-level models

Evolution and Human Behavior

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 182-190

  Copping, Lee T ^a   Campbell, Anne ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aggression; Environmental uncertainty; Evolution; Life history; Teenage pregnancy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84927761470     PISSN: 10905138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2014.10.005     Document Type: Article

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