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Life History Theory and the Sexual Double Standard [PDF]

, 2012
The present study sought to examine the relationship between the sexual double standard and life history theory. The sexual double standard is the idea that a man is rewarded for sexual behavior, whereas a woman is derogated.
Yuliana Zaikman
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Maternal capital predicts investment in infant growth and development through lactation

Frontiers in Nutrition, 2023
IntroductionMaternal capital (MC) is a broad term from evolutionary biology, referring to any aspects of maternal phenotype that represent resources available for investment in offspring.
Sarah Dib, Mary Fewtrell, Jonathan C. K. Wells   +2 more
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Childhood environmental harshness and unpredictability negatively predict eHealth literacy through fast life-history strategy

Frontiers in Psychology, 2023
BackgroundeHealth literacy—the ability to obtain, understand, evaluate, and use health information from the Internet—is important to maintaining and improving personal health.
Wenfei Feng, Jinguang Zhang, Jinguang Zhang   +2 more
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Differential Effects of Fundamental and Longitudinal Life History Trade-Offs on Delay Discounting: An Evolutionary Framework

Behavioral Sciences, 2022
We synthesized life history theory and the antagonistic pleiotropy hypothesis to form an integrative framework for understanding delay discounting (DD).
Junsong Lu, Qi’an Lu, Lin Lu
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The Cognitive, Ecological, and Developmental Origins of Self-Disturbance in Borderline Personality Disorder

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2021
Self-disturbance is recognized as a key symptom of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). Although it is the source of significant distress and significant costs to society, it is still poorly specified.
Axel Baptista, Axel Baptista, Axel Baptista, Axel Baptista, David Cohen, David Cohen, Pierre Olivier Jacquet, Pierre Olivier Jacquet, Pierre Olivier Jacquet, Valérian Chambon   +9 more
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A general life history theory for effects of caloric restriction on health maintenance. [PDF]

BMC Syst Biol, 2011
Hou C, Bolt K, Bergman A.
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Can impulsivity evolve in response to childhood environmental harshness?

Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2022
Previous studies have suggested that human impulsivity is an adaptive response to childhood environmental harshness: individuals from families of low socioeconomic status (SES) tend to be more impulsive.
Atsushi Kometani, Yohsuke Ohtsubo
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The geometry of reaction norms yields insights on classical fitness functions for Great Lakes salmon. [PDF]

, 2020
Life history theory examines how characteristics of organisms, such as age and size at maturity, may vary through natural selection as evolutionary responses that optimize fitness.
Breck, James E, Lamberson, PJ, Low, Bobbi S, Rogers, Mark W, Rutherford, Edward S, Simon, Carl P   +5 more
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Life history factors, personality and the social clustering of sexual experience in adolescents [PDF]

Royal Society Open Science, 2016
Adolescent sexual behaviour may show clustering in neighbourhoods, schools and friendship networks. This study aims to assess how experience with sexual intercourse clusters across the social world of adolescents and whether predictors implicated by life
Abram J. van Leeuwen, Ruth Mace
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Environmental conditions during early life accelerate the rate of senescence in a short-lived passerine bird [PDF]

, 2015
Environmental conditions experienced in early life may shape subsequent phenotypic traits including life history. We investigated how predation risk caused by domestic cats (Felis silvestris catus) and local breeding density affected patterns of ...
Balbontín Arenas, Javier, Møller, Anders P.   +1 more
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