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Ecology 6th Edition by Charles Krebs

Edition 6ISBN: 978-0321688149
book Ecology 6th Edition by Charles Krebs cover

Ecology 6th Edition by Charles Krebs

Edition 6ISBN: 978-0321688149
Exercise 8
In human populations in developed countries women generally outlive men by a margin of 5-10 years. Is this advantage in female longevity a general characteristic of nonhuman animal species as well? What might explain such a pattern in humans and other animals? Cohen (2004) reviews this question, and Carey et al. (1995) provide data on fruit flies to test this generalization.
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In most of the developed countries, wome...

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