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Evolutionary fitness as a function of pubertal age in 22 subsistence-based traditional societies
CONTEXT: The age of puberty has fallen over the past 130 years in industrialized, western countries, and this fall is widely referred to as the secular trend for earlier puberty. The current study was undertaken to test two evolutionary theories: (a) the reproductive system maximizes the number of o...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2011
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3159136/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21860629 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1687-9856-2011-2 |