作者
Hugo Mell, Lou Safra, Yann Algan, Nicolas Baumard, Coralie Chevallier
发表日期
2018/1/1
期刊
Evolution and Human Behavior
卷号
39
期号
1
页码范围
1-8
出版商
Elsevier
简介
There is considerable variation in health and reproductive behaviours within and across human populations. Drawing on principles from Life History Theory, psychosocial acceleration theory predicts that individuals developing in harsh environments decrease their level of somatic investment and accelerate their reproductive schedule. Although there is consistent empirical support for this general prediction, most studies have focused on a few isolated life history traits and few have investigated the way in which individuals apply life strategies across reproductive and somatic domains to produce coordinated behavioural responses to their environment. In our study, we thus investigate the impact of childhood environmental harshness on both reproductive strategies and somatic investment by applying structural equation modeling (SEM) to cross-sectional survey data obtained in a representative sample of the …
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