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The life-history trade-off between fertility and child survival
Evolutionary models of human reproduction argue that variation in fertility can be understood as the local optimization of a life-history trade-off between offspring quantity and ‘quality’. Child survival is a fundamental dimension of quality in these models as early-life mortality represents a cruc...
Autores principales: | Lawson, David W., Alvergne, Alexandra, Gibson, Mhairi A. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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The Royal Society
2012
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3497086/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23034700 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2012.1635 |
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