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Harsh Environments and “Fast” Human Life Histories: What Does the Theory Say?

2015-02-04

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<h4> A bstract </h4> A common belief among human life history researchers is that “harsher” environments - i.e., those with higher mortality rates and resource stress - select for “fast” life histories, i.e. earlier reproduction and faster senescence. I show that these “harsh environments, fast life histories” - or HEFLH - hypotheses are poorly supported by evolutionary theory. First, I use a simple model to sh...

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Literature Corpus work: 499c6e4d-8104-577f-9509-43913d07e793
DOI: 10.1101/014647

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