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March 2, 2020
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Evolution of Human Life History

Publicated to:Evolution of Nervous Systems. 4-4 37-50 - 2016-01-01 4-4(), DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-804042-3.00103-2

Authors: Bogin B., Varea C.

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Loughborough University - Author
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid - Author

Abstract

© 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. The postnatal life cycle of the social mammals, including the nonhuman primates, has three basic stages of development: infant, juvenile, and adult. Human beings are unusual and add a childhood stage after infancy and an adolescence stage after the juvenile stage. The human pattern of life history in both brain and body growth entails a large investment of energy and time by older members of the social group toward infants and children. This is achieved via a new type of breeding strategy called biocultural reproduction. The evolution of human life history results in enhanced reproductive success for the individuals and our species.

Keywords

AdolescentAntagonistic pleiotropyBiocultural reproductionChildhoodCommunal breedingCooperative breedingDevelopmentGrowthJuvenileMaturationPostreproductiveShared intentionalityTrade-offs

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

Esta aportación ha sido publicada por la editorial Elsevier according to the SPI Ranking, it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2016-01-01, es considerada como de las mejores posicionadas, concretamente el Q1.

From a relative perspective, and based on the normalized impact indicator calculated from the Field Citation Ratio (FCR) of the Dimensions source, it yields a value of: 6.76, which indicates that, compared to works in the same discipline and in the same year of publication, it ranks as a work cited above average. (source consulted: Dimensions Nov 2025)

Specifically, and according to different indexing agencies, this work has accumulated citations as of 2025-11-02, the following number of citations:

  • Scopus: 7

Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-11-02:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 41.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 41 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 9.45.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 18 (Altmetric).

Leadership analysis of institutional authors

This work has been carried out with international collaboration, specifically with researchers from: United Kingdom.

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: Last Author (VAREA GONZALEZ, CARLOS MARIA).