Explaining the optimality of U-shaped age-specific mortality

DOI10.1016/J.TPB.2007.11.005MaRDI QIDQ615420zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors C. Y. Cyrus Chu, Hung-Ken Chien, Ronald D. Lee

Publication date 5 January 2011

Published in Theoretical Population Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://europepmc.org/articles/pmc2291574

zbMATH Keywords

infant mortalityparental caresenescenceintergenerational transfersevolution of mortalityoptimal life historyparental investmentpostreproductive survival

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Population dynamics (general) (92D25) Numerical methods for integral equations (65R20) Integro-partial differential equations (45K99)

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