Natural Selection, Technological Progress, and the Origin of Human Longevity

This paper suggests that feedback effects between technological progress and human longevity lie at the heart of their common emergence in human history. It connects two major research questions. First, the long life span after menopause is a unique but puzzling feature of humans among primates. S...

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Manylion Llyfryddiaeth
Cyhoeddwyd yn:MAGKS - Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics (Band 45-2016)
Prif Awduron: Grall, Lothar, Meckl, Jürgen
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Cyhoeddwyd: Philipps-Universität Marburg 2016
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