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dc.contributor.authorOnyango, Patrick O
dc.contributor.authorAltmann, Jeanne
dc.contributor.authorGesquiere, Laurence
dc.contributor.authorGalbany, Jordi
dc.contributor.authorAlberts, Susan C
dc.date.accessioned2018-06-19T10:06:14Z
dc.date.available2018-06-19T10:06:14Z
dc.date.issued2010-08-01
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.maseno.ac.ke/handle/123456789/594
dc.description.abstractThe pace of reproductive aging has been of considerable interest, especially in regard to the long postreproductive period in modern women. Here we use data for both sexes from a 37‐year longitudinal study of a wild baboon population to place reproductive aging within a life history context for this species, a primate relative of humans that evolved in the same savannah habitat as humans did. We examine the patterns and pace of reproductive aging, including birth rates and reproductive hormones for both sexes, and compare reproductive aging to age‐related changes in several other traits. Reproductive senescence occurs later in baboon females than males. Delayed senescence in females relative to males is also found in several other traits, such as dominance status and body condition, but not in molar wear or glucocorticoid profiles. Survival, health, and well‐being are the product of risk factors in morphological, physiological, and behavioral traits that differ in rate of senescence and in dependence on social or ecological conditions; some will be very sensitive to differences in circumstances and others less so.en_US
dc.publisherBlackwell Publishing Incen_US
dc.titleLife history context of reproductive aging in a wild primate modelen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US


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