Natural Selection and the Evolution of Life Expectancy

This research advances an evolutionary growth theory that captures the pattern of life expectancy in the process of development, shedding new light on the sources of the remarkable rise in life expectancy since the Agricultural Revolution. The theory suggests that social, economic and environmental changes that were associated with the transition from hunter-gatherer tribes to sedentary agricultural communities and ultimately to urban societies affected the nature of the environmental hazards confronted by the human population, triggering an evolutionary process that had a significant impact on the time path of human longevity.

[1]  R. May,et al.  Plagues and peoples , 2006, IUBMB life.

[2]  Uwe Sunde,et al.  Human Capital Formation, Life Expectancy, and the Process of Development. , 2005, The American economic review.

[3]  H. Strulik.  Geography, Health, and Demo-Economic Development , 2005 .

[4]  D. Weil,et al.  Accounting for the Effect of Health on Economic Growth , 2005 .

[5]  R. Soares,et al.  Mortality Reductions, Educational Attainment, and Fertility Choice. , 2005, The American economic review.

[6]  J. Borghans,et al.  Economic Performance, Human Cooperation and the Major Histocompatibility Complex∗ , 2005 .

[7]  M. Botticini,et al.  The Value of Sons in Premodern Economies: A View from the Marriage Market , 2005 .

[8]  David N. Reznick,et al.  Effect of extrinsic mortality on the evolution of senescence in guppies , 2004, Nature.

[9]  J. Weisdorf.  From stagnation to growth: Revisiting three historical regimes , 2004 .

[10]  R. Steckel.  The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: Health and Nutrition in Pre-Columbian America , 2004 .

[11]  G. Clark,et al.  Was Pre-Industrial Society Malthusian? Tests from England and New France , 2004 .

[12]  Raouf Boucekkine,et al.  Early Mortality Declines at the Dawn of Modern Growth , 2003 .

[13]  Ronald Lee,et al.  Rethinking the evolutionary theory of aging: Transfers, not births, shape senescence in social species , 2003, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

[14]  T. Day,et al.  ANTAGONISTIC PLEIOTROPY, MORTALITY SOURCE INTERACTIONS, AND THE EVOLUTIONARY THEORY OF SENESCENCE , 2003, Evolution; international journal of organic evolution.

[15]  M. Benaïm,et al.  Deterministic Approximation of Stochastic Evolution in Games , 2003 .

[16]  A. Robson,et al.  The Evolution of Human Life Expectancy and Intelligence in Hunter-Gatherer Economies. , 2003, The American economic review.

[17]  Uwe Sunde,et al.  Human Capital Formation, Life Expectancy and the Process of Economic Development , 2002, SSRN Electronic Journal.

[18]  Debby E. Doughty,et al.  Genetic Influence Helps Explain Variation in Human Fertility: Evidence From Recent Behavioral and Molecular Genetic Studies , 2001 .

[19]  Murat F. Iyigun.  Geography, demography, and early development , 2001 .

[20]  George C. Williams,et al.  PLEIOTROPY, NATURAL SELECTION, AND THE EVOLUTION OF SENESCENCE , 1957, Science of Aging Knowledge Environment.

[21]  H. Ofek,et al.  Second Nature: Economic Origins of Human Evolution , 2001 .

[22]  Oded Galor,et al.  Natural Selection and the Origin of Economic Growth , 2001 .

[23]  N. Lagerloef.  From Malthus to Modern Growth: The Three Regimes Revisited , 2000 .

[24]  D. Weil,et al.  Mortality Decline, Human Capital Investment and Economic Growth , 2000 .

[25]  Debby E. Doughty,et al.  Genetic and Environmental Influences on Fertility Expectations and Outcomes Using NLSY Kinship Data , 2000 .

[26]  J. Diamond,et al.  Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies , 1999 .

[27]  J. Rodgers,et al.  Is Fertility Behavior in Our Genes? Findings from a Danish Twin Study , 1999 .

[28]  David N. Weil,et al.  From Malthusian stagnation to modern growth. , 1999 .

[29]  R. Schofield.  History, Computing and the Emergence of the Population History of England, 1541-1871: a Reconstruction , 1982, Hist. Comput..

[30]  Alberto Bisin,et al.  Cultural Transmission, Marriage and the Evolution of Ethnic and Religious Traits , 2000 .

[31]  R. Westendorp,et al.  Human longevity at the cost of reproductive success , 1998, Nature.

[32]  Joel Mokyr,et al.  Induced technical innovation and medical history: an evolutionary approach , 1998 .

[33]  A. Schotter,et al.  Endogenous Preferences : The Cultural Consequences of Markets and other Economic Institutions , 1999 .

[34]  H. Léridon.  Livi-Bacci (Massimo) — A Concise History of World Population , 1997 .

[35]  M. Livi-bacci,et al.  A Concise History of World Population , 1993 .

[36]  Francis T. Lui,et al.  Intergenerational Trade, Longevity, and Economic Growth , 1991, Journal of Political Economy.

[37]  B. Grant,et al.  Selection in a Galapagos Finch: Value of Long-Term Study@@@Evolutionary Dynamics of a Natural Population. , 1991 .

[38]  C. M. Lessells,et al.  The Evolution of Life Histories , 1994 .

[39]  A. Crosby.  Health and the rise of civilization , 1990, Medical History.

[40]  Charles Stuart,et al.  Malthusian Selection of Preferences , 1990 .

[41]  G. Boyer.  Malthus Was Right after All: Poor Relief and Birth Rates in Southeastern England , 1989, Journal of Political Economy.

[42]  Paul Bairoch.  Cities and Economic Development , 1990 .

[43]  J. Endler.  Natural selection in the wild , 1987 .

[44]  P. Richerson,et al.  Culture and the Evolutionary Process , 1988 .

[45]  R. Lewontin.  Cultural transmission and evolution: A quantitative approach , 1982 .

[46]  W. Durham.  Interactions of genetic and cultural evolution: Models and examples , 1982 .

[47]  A. W. Coats,et al.  The European Miracle: Environments, Economies, and Geopolitics in the History of Europe and Asia. , 1982 .

[48]  F. Hassan.  5 – Demographic Archaeology , 1981 .

[49]  M. Feldman,et al.  Cultural transmission and evolution: a quantitative approach. , 1981, Monographs in population biology.

[50]  T. Kirkwood,et al.  The evolution of ageing and longevity , 1979, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological Sciences.

[51]  W. Mcneill.  Plagues and Peoples , 1977, The Review of Politics.

[52]  Gary S. Becker,et al.  Altruism, Egoism, and Genetic Fitness: Economics and Sociobiology , 1976 .

[53]  E. Wilson,et al.  Sociobiology: The New Synthesis , 1976 .

[54]  A. Searle,et al.  The Evolution of Melanism , 1974 .

[55]  G. Acsadi,et al.  History of Human Life Span and Mortality , 1971 .

[56]  S. Wiesenfeld.  Sickle-Cell Trait in Human Biological and Cultural Evolution , 1967, Science.

[57]  M. Cody,et al.  A GENERAL THEORY OF CLUTCH SIZE , 1966, Evolution; international journal of organic evolution.

[58]  Frank B. Livingstone,et al.  Anthropological Implications of Sickle Cell Gene Distribution in West Africa1 , 1958 .

[59]  S. A. Barnett,et al.  The natural regulation of animal numbers , 1955 .

[60]  D. Lack.  The natural regulation of animal numbers , 1954 .

[61]  P. Medawar.  UNSOLVED problem of biology. , 1953, The Medical journal of Australia.