Parents of early‐maturing girls die younger

Parents of early‐maturing girls die younger

Abstract According to the life‐history theory, rates of sexual maturation have coevolved with mortality rates so that individuals who mature faster tend to die younger. We used two data sets, providing different markers for the speed of pubertal development to test whether rates of sexual maturation...

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Main Authors: Peeter Hõrak, Markus Valge, Krista Fischer, Reedik Mägi, Tanel Kaart
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2019-06-01
Series:Evolutionary Applications
Subjects:
age at death
age at menarche
breast development
heritability
human life‐history evolution
lifespan
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.12780

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https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.12780

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