Why do female primates have such long lifespans and so few babies? or Life in the slow lane.
Why do female primates have such long lifespans and so few babies? or Life in the slow lane.
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DOI：
10.1002/evan.1360010604
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发表时间：
1993-01-01
影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
Berrigan, David
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作者：
Charnov, Eric L.;Berrigan, David
生活史研究的一个主要目标是识别和解释个体物种的生活史特征，这些特征遵循许多生物群体的广泛规则，这些特征是特定系统发育谱系的特征，以及对当地生态环境的特定适应特征。近年来，我们已经发展出一个生命史的一般理论，它将个体发育和繁殖的许多方面与广泛的生物体联系起来。与大多数其他哺乳动物一样，灵长类动物的平均成年寿命很长，每年的婴儿数量很少。这一新理论表明，生活史的这些方面直接来自灵长类动物个体生长缓慢的事实。因此，这种缓慢的生长速度是理解灵长类动物缓慢性需要解释的基本现象。
A major goal of life history studies is to identify and explain features of the life history of individual species that follow broad rules across many groups of organisms, features that are characteristic of particular phylogenetic lineages, and features that are specific adaptations, to local ecological situations. In recent years we have developed a general theory of life history that interrelates many aspects of ontogeny and reproduction across a wide range of organisms. Contrasted to most other mammals, primates have long average adult lifespans and few babies per year for their adult body size. This new theory suggests that these aspects of life history follow directly from the fact that primates have slow individual growth rates. This slow growth rate is thus the basic phenomenon that needs explanation to understand primate slowness.