Human children grow at a uniquely slow pace by comparison with other mammals. When
and where did this schedule evolve? Have technological advances, farming and cities had …

To understand the evolutionary forces that have shaped primate lactation strategies, it is
important to understand the proximate mechanisms of milk synthesis and their ecological …

Demographic data on wild chimpanzees are crucial for understanding the evolution of
chimpanzee and hominin life histories, but most data come from populations affected by …

Demographic data from wild chimpanzees are of considerable interest for understanding the
evolution of the human life history. Published mortality data, however, come primarily from …

BY “LIFE HISTORY,” we mean “the probabilities of survival and the rates of reproduction at
each age in the life-span"(Partridge & Harvey 1988) or" features of the life cycle and their …

Most of the ancestors of today's human and animal populations reached Madagascar over
the last 65 million years, by a variety of routes at a variety of times. Settlers encountered a …

The onset of walking is a fundamental milestone in motor development of humans and other
mammals, yet little is known about what factors determine its timing. Hoofed animals start …

Comparative data from wild populations are necessary to understand the evolution of
primate life history strategies. We present demographic data from a 29-yr longitudinal study …

Primate life histories are strongly influenced by both body and brain mass and are mediated
by food availability and perhaps dietary adaptations. It has been suggested that folivorous …

Life history variables such as the age at first reproduction and the interval between
consecutive births are measures of investment in growth and reproduction in a particular …