Menarcheal timing is accelerated by favorable nutrition but unrelated to developmental cues of mortality or familial instability in Cebu, Philippines

Evolution and Human Behavior

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 76-81

  Kyweluk, Moira A ^a   Georgiev, Alexander V ^a,b   Borja, Judith B ^c   Gettler, Lee T ^d   Kuzawa, Christopher W ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SAN CARLOS   (Philippines)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Fertility milestones; Human growth; Life history theory; Puberty; Reproductive timing

Indexed keywords

EID: 85038126738     PISSN: 10905138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2017.10.002     Document Type: Article

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