Locomotor play drives motor skill acquisition at the expense of growth: A life history trade-off

Science Advances

Volumn 1, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Berghänel, Andreas ^a   Schülke, Oliver ^a,b   Ostner, Julia ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSTS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS;

BEHAVIORAL OBSERVATION; CURRENT THEORIES; DEVELOPMENTAL COSTS; EVOLUTIONARY THEORIES; PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT; QUANTITATIVE MEASURES; SIZE DIFFERENCE; SKILL REQUIREMENTS;

INVESTMENTS;

EID: 84949269963     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23752548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1500451     Document Type: Article

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