Early maturing Kipsigis women have higher reproductive success than late maturing women and cost more to marry
dc.contributor.author | Mulder, Monique Borgerhoff | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2006-09-11T18:19:33Z | |
dc.date.available | 2006-09-11T18:19:33Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1989-03 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Mulder, Monique Borgerhoff; (1989). "Early maturing Kipsigis women have higher reproductive success than late maturing women and cost more to marry." Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 24(3): 145-153. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/46888> | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0340-5443 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1432-0762 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/46888 | |
dc.description.abstract | Demographic analyses from 3 cohorts of Kenyan Kipsigis women married between 1940 and 1973 demonstrate that early maturing women have higher reproductive success than do late maturing women, due to longer reproductive lifespans and higher fertility. This result is independent of confounding effects of husband's wealth, but not of the wealth of a woman's parents which affects both menarcheal age and subsequent reproductive success. Data on bridewealth payments at 194 marriages occurring after 1959 show that men make higher marriage payments for early maturing women than for late maturing women. Together these results suggest that Kipsigis men vary their marriage payments in accordance with the reproductive value of their brides. The question of why men use age at menarche rather than bride's parents' wealth as a cue to their bride's subsequent reproductive performance is discussed in the light of changing social and economic conditions experienced by Kipsigis since the late 1920s. | en_US |
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dc.format.extent | 3115 bytes | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.format.mimetype | text/plain | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Springer-Verlag | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Life Sciences | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Zoology | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Behavioural Sciences | en_US |
dc.title | Early maturing Kipsigis women have higher reproductive success than late maturing women and cost more to marry | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Science | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Evolution and Human Behavior Program, University of Michigan, Rackham Building, 48109-1070, Ann Arbor, MI, USA | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus | Ann Arbor | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/46888/1/265_2004_Article_BF00292097.pdf | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00292097 | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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