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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...

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Autores principales: Lawson, David W., Alvergne, Alexandra, Gibson, Mhairi A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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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