There is considerable variation in health and reproductive behaviours within and across
human populations. Drawing on principles from Life History Theory, psychosocial …

Timing of first reproduction is a key life-history variable with important implications for global
economic development and health. Life-history theory predicts that human reproductive …

As applied to humans, life history theory suggests that harsh and unpredictable childhood
environments shape downstream reproductive strategies. Although myriad work provides …

Developmental environments are crucial for shaping our life course. Elements of the early
social and biological environments have been consistently associated with reproduction in …

Drawing on life history theory, Ellis and associates'(2009) recent across-and within-species
analysis of ecological effects on reproductive development highlighted two fundamental …

The purpose of this article is to develop a model of life history theory that incorporates
environmental influences, contextual influences, and heritable variation. I argue that …

In a first study, we investigated how the absence of a father and the presence of a stepfather
during early childhood affected physiological and behavioral traits related to reproductive …

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 …

Childhood psychosocial adversity is associated with accelerated onset of reproductive effort
in women. Adaptive explanations for this phenomenon are built on the assumption that …

Purpose Perceptions of environmental adversity and access to economic resources in
adolescence can theoretically affect the timing of life history transitions and investment in …