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Natural Selection on Female Life-History Traits in Relation to Socio-Economic Class in Pre-Industrial Human Populations
(2007)PLoS ONELife-history theory predicts that resource scarcity constrains individual optimal reproductive strategies and shapes the evolution of life-history traits. In species where the inherited structure of social class may lead to consistent resource differences among family lines, between-class variation in resource availability should select for divergence in optimal reproductive strategies. Evaluating this prediction requires information on ...Journal Article