Longevity and the costs of reproduction in a historical human population.
It has been argued that the priority that natural selection places on reproduction negatively affects other processes such as longevity and the problem posed by this trade-off underlies the disposable soma theory for the evolution of human ageing. Here we examine the relationship between reproductio...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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2000
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