When the mother-in-law is just as good-Differential mortality of reproductive females by family network composition.

Motivated by the cooperative breeding hypothesis, we investigate the effect of having kin on the mortality of reproductive women based on family reconstitutions for the Krummhörn region (East Frisia, Germany, 1720-1874). We rely on a combination of Cox clustered hazard models and hazard models strat...

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Main Authors: Kai Pierre Willführ, Johannes Johow, Eckart Voland
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5832229?pdf=render