The human post‐fertile lifespan in comparative evolutionary context

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  2013

• Venue

  Evolutionary Anthropology (print)

• Publication date

  2013-03-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1002/evan.21332PMID 23585379
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