Intergenerational conflicts may help explain parental absence effects on reproductive timing: a model of age at first birth in humans
Background. Parental absences in childhood are often associated with accelerated reproductive maturity in humans. These results are counterintuitive for evolutionary social scientists because reductions in parental investment should be detrimental for offspring, but earlier reproduction is generally...
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PeerJ Inc.
2014-08-01
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| Online Access: | https://peerj.com/articles/512.pdf |