When fecundity does not equal fitness: evidence of an offspring quantity versus quality trade-off in pre-industrial humans

Gillespie, D.O.S., Russell, A.F. and Lummaa, V. (2008) When fecundity does not equal fitness: evidence of an offspring quantity versus quality trade-off in pre-industrial humans. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 275 (1635). 713 - 722. ISSN 0962-8452

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Authors/Creators:
  • Gillespie, D.O.S.
  • Russell, A.F.
  • Lummaa, V.
Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: Copyright © 2008 The Royal Society This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Keywords: life-history evolution; maternal fitness; recruitment; reproductive success; resource acquisition; socio-economic status; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; MANIPULATION EXPERIMENT; PARENTAL INVESTMENT; CLUTCH SIZE; FERTILITY; EVOLUTION; SURVIVAL; NUMBER; ALLOCATION; SOCIETIES
Dates:
  • Published: 22 March 2008
Institution: The University of Sheffield
Academic Units: The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Science (Sheffield) > School of Biosciences (Sheffield) > Department of Animal and Plant Sciences (Sheffield)
Depositing User: Symplectic Sheffield
Date Deposited: 15 Dec 2015 09:48
Last Modified: 15 Dec 2015 09:48
Published Version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2007.1000
Status: Published
Publisher: The Royal Society
Refereed: Yes
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2007.1000

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