Measuring selective constraint on fertility in human life histories

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

Volumn 112, Issue 29, 2015, Pages 8982-8986

  Jones, James Holland ^a,b   Tuljapurkar, Shripad ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Demography; Human evolution; Life history theory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HUMAN; INFANT MORTALITY; LIFE CYCLE; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; SENESCENCE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DEMOGRAPHY; INFANT; LIFE CYCLE STAGE; PHYSIOLOGY; SURVIVAL;

MACACA MULATTA; PAN; PRIMATES;

DEMOGRAPHY; FERTILITY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84937501622     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1422037112     Document Type: Article

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