A Life History Theory of Father Absence and Menarche: A Meta-Analysis [PDF]
Evolutionary Psychology, 2014 Is the absence of biological fathers related to their daughters' earlier age at menarche? Drawing on evolutionary psychology and life history theory, prior research has suggested such a relationship ( Belsky, Steinberg, and Draper, 1991 ; Draper and ...
Gregory D. Webster +4 more
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Harshness and unpredictability during childhood: an approach from life-history theory to understanding risk behaviors [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyIntroductionPrevious studies have investigated the relationship between childhood experiences of harshness and unpredictability and risky adult behaviors from a life-history theory perspective.
Eugenio J. Guzmán-Lavín +5 more
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Predicting Moffitt's Developmental Taxonomy of Antisocial Behavior Using Life History Theory: A Partial Test of the Evolutionary Taxonomy. [PDF]
Evol Psychol, 2023 Nedelec JL, DiRienzo F.
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Life-history theory and climate change: resolving population and parental investment paradoxes [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2016 Population growth in the next half-century is on pace to raise global carbon emissions by half. Carbon emissions are associated with fertility as a by-product of somatic and parental investment, which is predicted to involve time orientation/preference ...
Mark Caudell, Robert Quinlan
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Transgenerational response and life history theory: a response to Peeter Hõrak. [PDF]
Int J Epidemiol, 2017 Vågerö D, Rajaleid K.
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The Theory of Life History and Criminal Behavior
Polish Journal of Social Rehabilitation, 2017 The aim of the present article is to show the violent crime phenomenon from a life history theory perspective, which is drawn on evolutionary biology but more and more often is being employed in the area of psychology.
Monika Kwiek +2 more
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Application of life history theory to explain the association between childhood maltreatment and adulthood sleep problems in Chinese men with drug abuse: multiple mediating roles of emotion regulation, future-oriented coping, and anxiety. [PDF]
Eur J PsychotraumatolFeng C +5 more
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A shared mechanism of defense against predators and parasites: chitin regulation and its implications for life-history theory. [PDF]
Ecol Evol, 2013 Beckerman AP +3 more
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Pubertal timing and sexual risk behaviors among rural African American male youth: testing a model based on life history theory. [PDF]
Arch Sex Behav, 2015 Kogan SM +6 more
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Linking thermal adaptation and life-history theory explains latitudinal patterns of voltinism. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2019 Kong JD, Hoffmann AA, Kearney MR.
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