Reproductive trade-offs in extant hunter-gatherers suggest adaptive mechanism for the Neolithic expansion

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

Volumn 113, Issue 17, 2016, Pages 4694-4699

  Page, Abigail E ^a   Viguier, Sylvain ^a   Dyble, Mark ^a   Smith, Daniel ^a   Chaudhary, Nikhil ^a   Salali, Gul Deniz ^a   Thompson, James ^a   Vinicius, Lucio ^a   Mace, Ruth ^a   Migliano, Andrea Bamberg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Epidemiological transition; Hunter gatherers; Neolithic demographic transition; Neolithic revolution; Quality quantity trade off

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; DETERIORATION; EOSINOPHIL; EOSINOPHILIA; FEMALE FERTILITY; FOOD INDUSTRY; FORAGER; FORAGING; GATHERER; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMAN; HUNTER; INFANT MORTALITY; LIVE BIRTH; LYMPHOCYTE; LYMPHOCYTOSIS; MATERNAL AGE; MOTHER; NAMED GROUPS BY OCCUPATION; NEOLITHIC; NEUTROPHIL; NEUTROPHILIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SURVIVAL; TUBERCULOSIS; VIRUS INFECTION; ADAPTATION; ARCHEOLOGY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PALEOLITHIC DIET; PHILIPPINES; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION GROWTH; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ARCHAEOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIET, PALEOLITHIC; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHILIPPINES; POPULATION GROWTH; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 84964770231     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1524031113     Document Type: Article

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