The ex-pat effect: presence of recent Western immigrants is associated with changes in age at first birth and birth rate in a Maya population from rural Guatemala

Background: Economic transitions expose indigenous populations to a variety of ecological and cultural challenges, especially regarding diet and stress. These kinds of challenges are predicted by evolutionary ecological theory to have fitness consequences (differential reproduction) and, indeed, are...

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Main Authors: Luseadra McKerracher, Mark Collard, Rachel Altman, Michael Richards, Pablo Nepomnaschy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2017-07-01
Series:Annals of Human Biology
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03014460.2017.1343385