Why do female primates have such long lifespans and so few babies? or Life in the slow lane

By E. Charnov, David Berrigan. 2005

382 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Social Psychology

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In Ecology

1. Jeanne Altmann
2. S. Alberts
3. U. Reichard
4. C. Barelli
5. Peter M. Kappeler

In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. C. Barelli
2. U. Reichard
3. S. Alberts
4. Jeanne Altmann
5. Joan B. Silk
6. Peter M. Kappeler
7. D. Cheney
8. R. Seyfarth

In Social Psychology

1. C. Barelli
2. S. Alberts
3. Jeanne Altmann
4. U. Reichard
5. Joan B. Silk
6. John C. Mitani
7. Marie J. E. Charpentier
8. Robin I. M. Dunbar

Citations in the corpus

• Life History and Reproductive Strategies of Khao Yai Hylobates lar: Implications for Social Evolution in Apes (2008, positive): “Researchers have long recognized that primates mature slowly compared to other mammals (Charnov and Berrigan 1993; Harvey et al. 1987; Ross 1988; Ross and Jones 1999).”
• Growth rates in a wild primate population: ecological influences and maternal effects (2005, background): “Primates are characterized both by slow average growth relative to other mammals ( Charnov and Berrigan 1993; Janson and van Schaik 1993; Pereira 1993; Rubenstein 1993) and by considerable plasticity of growth rates (see e.g., Coelho 1985; Altmann and Alberts 1987; Strum 1991; Pereira and Leigh 200”
• Life in the slow lane? Demography and life histories of male and female sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi verreauxi) (2006, background): “There is also broad agreement that `as mammal life histories go, primates are slow' (Charnov & Berrigan, 1993: 191), but still no clear understanding of the reasons for this.”