There is growing evidence that the reproductive schedules of female mammals can be
affected by conditions experienced during early development, with low parental investment …

There is considerable interest in the mechanisms maintaining early reproduction in the most
socioeconomically disadvantaged groups in developed countries. Previous research has …

Father absence in early life has been shown to be associated with accelerated reproductive
development in girls. Evolutionary social scientists have proposed several adaptive …

From an ultimate perspective, the age of onset of female reproduction should be sensitive to
variation in mortality rates, and variation in the productivity of non-reproductive activities. In …

We investigated associations between later-life health and fertility history for women and
men, using the British Household Panel Survey. We modelled health and its rate of change …

Evolutionary theory suggests a trade‐off between reproduction and somatic maintenance
implying a negative relationship between parity and longevity, at least in natural fertility …

The fast-slow paradigm of life history theory has been a popular approach to individual
differences in the evolutionary behavioral sciences. Currently, however, the fast-slow …

We have built a model to predict optimal age at first birth for women in a natural fertility
population. The only existing fully evolutionary model, based on Ache hunter–gatherers …

BACKGROUND Previous research shows associations between fertility histories and later
life health. The childless, those with large families, and those with a young age at entry to …

Particular features of human female life history, such as short birth intervals and the early
cessation of female reproduction (menopause), are argued to be evidence that humans are …