Kristen Hawkes

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Affiliation: University of Utah
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Grandmothers and the evolution of human longevity
    Kristen Hawkes
    Deparment of Anthropology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, USA
    Am J Hum Biol 15:380-400. 2003
  2. ncbi Mortality and fertility rates in humans and chimpanzees: How within-species variation complicates cross-species comparisons
    Kristen Hawkes
    Department of Anthropology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, 84112 0600, USA
    Am J Hum Biol 21:578-86. 2009
  3. ncbi Brief communication: Evaluating grandmother effects
    Kristen Hawkes
    Department of Anthropology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
    Am J Phys Anthropol 140:173-6. 2009
  4. ncbi Do women stop early? Similarities in fertility decline in humans and chimpanzees
    Kristen Hawkes
    Department of Anthropology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112 0060, USA
    Ann N Y Acad Sci 1204:43-53. 2010
  5. ncbi Human actuarial aging increases faster when background death rates are lower: a consequence of differential heterogeneity?
    Kristen Hawkes
    Department of Anthropology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
    Evolution 66:103-14. 2012
  6. ncbi Colloquium paper: how grandmother effects plus individual variation in frailty shape fertility and mortality: guidance from human-chimpanzee comparisons
    Kristen Hawkes
    Department of Anthropology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107:8977-84. 2010
  7. ncbi Antiquity of postreproductive life: are there modern impacts on hunter-gatherer postreproductive life spans?
    Nicholas G Blurton Jones
    Department of Anthropology, and Graduate School of Education, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095 1553, USA
    Am J Hum Biol 14:184-205. 2002
  8. ncbi Human longevity: the grandmother effect
    Kristen Hawkes
    Nature 428:128-9. 2004

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Publications8

  1. ncbi Grandmothers and the evolution of human longevity
    Kristen Hawkes
    Deparment of Anthropology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, USA
    Am J Hum Biol 15:380-400. 2003
    ....
  2. ncbi Mortality and fertility rates in humans and chimpanzees: How within-species variation complicates cross-species comparisons
    Kristen Hawkes
    Department of Anthropology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, 84112 0600, USA
    Am J Hum Biol 21:578-86. 2009
    ..We report these puzzles using data from nine human populations and both wild and captive chimpanzees, and suggest that systematic differences in the heterogeneity of surviving adults may explain them...
  3. ncbi Brief communication: Evaluating grandmother effects
    Kristen Hawkes
    Department of Anthropology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
    Am J Phys Anthropol 140:173-6. 2009
    ....
  4. ncbi Do women stop early? Similarities in fertility decline in humans and chimpanzees
    Kristen Hawkes
    Department of Anthropology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112 0060, USA
    Ann N Y Acad Sci 1204:43-53. 2010
    ..Neither realized fertility nor rates of follicular atresia stand as evidence against the hypothesis that ages at last birth changed little while greater longevity evolved in our lineage...
  5. ncbi Human actuarial aging increases faster when background death rates are lower: a consequence of differential heterogeneity?
    Kristen Hawkes
    Department of Anthropology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
    Evolution 66:103-14. 2012
    ..Finally, we compare the relationships among mortality parameters of the traditional societies and the historical series, providing further suggestive evidence that differential heterogeneity has strong effects on actuarial aging...
  6. ncbi Colloquium paper: how grandmother effects plus individual variation in frailty shape fertility and mortality: guidance from human-chimpanzee comparisons
    Kristen Hawkes
    Department of Anthropology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107:8977-84. 2010
    ..This heterogeneity, combined with evolutionary tradeoffs and the key role of ancestral grandmothers they identify, helps explain aspects of human aging that increasingly concern us all...
  7. ncbi Antiquity of postreproductive life: are there modern impacts on hunter-gatherer postreproductive life spans?
    Nicholas G Blurton Jones
    Department of Anthropology, and Graduate School of Education, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095 1553, USA
    Am J Hum Biol 14:184-205. 2002
    ..Twenty or so vigorous years between the end of reproduction and the onset of significant senescence does require an explanation...
  8. ncbi Human longevity: the grandmother effect
    Kristen Hawkes
    Nature 428:128-9. 2004