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Measuring fitness heritability: Life history traits versus morphological traits in humans.
American journal of physical anthropology - 1 Oct 2017
Gavrus-Ion Alina, Sjøvold Torstein, Hernández Miguel, González-José Rolando, Esteban Torné María Esther, Martínez-Abadías Neus, Esparza Mireia
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVES: Traditional interpretation of Fisher's Fundamental Theorem of Natural Selection is that life history traits (LHT), which are closely related with fitness, show lower heritabilities, whereas morphological traits (MT) are less related with fitness and they are expected to show higher heritabilities. In humans, although few studies have examined the heritability of LHT and MT, none of them have analyzed...
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