Resource and extrinsic risk in defining fast life histories of rural Chinese left-behind children

Evolution and Human Behavior

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 59-66

  Chang, Lei ^a   Lu, Hui Jing ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACAU   (Macao)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Competition; Extrinsic risk; Fast and slow life history; Father absence; Parental absence; Resource

Indexed keywords

EID: 85038083425     PISSN: 10905138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2017.10.003     Document Type: Article

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