Cumulative early life adversity predicts longevity in wild baboons

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Tung, Jenny ^a,b   Archie, Elizabeth A ^b,c   Altmann, Jeanne ^b,d,e   Alberts, Susan C ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF PRIMATE RESEARCH   (Kenya)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LONGEVITY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRIMATE;

ADULT; ADULT ANIMAL; ADULTHOOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY LIFE ADVERSITY; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; INTEGRATION; LIFE; LIFESPAN; LONGEVITY; MEDIAN SURVIVAL TIME; NONHUMAN; PAPIO CYNOCEPHALUS; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL; WILD ANIMAL; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL; BABOON; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; DROUGHT; MENTAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME FACTOR;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; PAPIO;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; DROUGHTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGEVITY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PAPIO; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84973293324     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms11181     Document Type: Article

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