Helminth infection, fecundity, and age of first pregnancy in women

Aaron D. Blackwell; Marilyne A. Tamayo; Bret Beheim; Benjamin C. Trumble; Jonathan Stieglitz; Paul L. Hooper; Melanie Martin; Hillard Kaplan; Michael Gurven

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Helminth infection, fecundity, and age of first pregnancy in women

Aaron D. Blackwell¹,²,³,*,
Marilyne A. Tamayo⁴,
Bret Beheim²,⁵,
Benjamin C. Trumble¹,²,³,⁶,⁷,
Jonathan Stieglitz²,⁵,⁸,
Paul L. Hooper²,⁹,
Melanie Martin¹,²,³,
Hillard Kaplan²,⁵,
Michael Gurven¹,²,³

¹Department of Anthropology, University of California Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA.
²Tsimane Health and Life History Project, San Borja, Bolivia.
³Broom Center for Demography, University of California Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA.
⁴Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA.
⁵Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA.
⁶Center for Evolutionary Medicine, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA.
⁷School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.
⁸Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse, Toulouse, France.
⁹Department of Anthropology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.

↵*Corresponding author. E-mail: blackwell{at}anth.ucsb.edu

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Science 20 Nov 2015:
Vol. 350, Issue 6263, pp. 970-972
DOI: 10.1126/science.aac7902

Aaron D. Blackwell

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For correspondence: blackwell@anth.ucsb.edu

Marilyne A. Tamayo

Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA.

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Bret Beheim

Tsimane Health and Life History Project, San Borja, Bolivia.Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA.

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Benjamin C. Trumble

Department of Anthropology, University of California Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA.Tsimane Health and Life History Project, San Borja, Bolivia.Broom Center for Demography, University of California Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA.Center for Evolutionary Medicine, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA.School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.

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Jonathan Stieglitz

Tsimane Health and Life History Project, San Borja, Bolivia.Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA.Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse, Toulouse, France.

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Paul L. Hooper

Tsimane Health and Life History Project, San Borja, Bolivia.Department of Anthropology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.

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Melanie Martin

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Hillard Kaplan

Tsimane Health and Life History Project, San Borja, Bolivia.Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA.

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Michael Gurven

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