The Evolution of Human Phenotypic Plasticity: Age and Nutritional Status at Maturity

From: Human Biology | Date: August 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Abstract Several evolutionary optimal models of human plasticity in age and nutritional status at reproductive maturation are proposed and their dynamics examined. These models differ from previously published models because fertility is not assumed to be a function of body size or nutritional status. Further, the models are based on explicitly human demographic patterns, that is, model human life-tables, model human fertility tables, and, a nutrient flow-based model of maternal nutritional status. Infant survival (instead of fertility as in previous models) is assumed to be a function of ...

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