Is There a Trade-Off Between Fertility and Longevity? A Comparative Study of Women from Three Large Historical Databases Accounting for Mortality Selection

Frontier populations provide exceptional opportunities to test the hypothesis of a trade-off between fertility and longevity. In such populations, mechanisms favoring reproduction usually find fertile ground, and if these mechanisms reduce longevity, demographers should observe higher postreproducti...

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Published in:Am J Hum Biol
Main Authors: GAGNON, ALAIN, SMITH, KEN R., TREMBLAY, MARC, VÉZINA, HÉLÈNE, PARÉ, PAUL-PHILIPPE, DESJARDINS, BERTRAND
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 2009
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6121733/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19298004
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.20893
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