Life history context of reproductive aging in a wild primate model
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Life history context of reproductive aging in a wild primate model.
The pace of reproductive aging has been of considerable interest, especially in regard to the long postreproductive period in modern women. Here we use data for both sexes from a 37-year longitudinal study of a wild baboon population to place reproductive aging within a life history context for this species, a primate relative of humans that evolved in the same savannah habitat as humans did. W...
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عنوان ژورنال: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0077-8923
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2010.05531.x