Early and adult life environmental effects on reproductive performance in preindustrial women.

ABSTRACT: Early life environments can have long-lasting effects on adult reproductive performance, but disentangling the influence of early and adult life environments on fitness is challenging, especially for long-lived species. Using a detailed dataset spanning over two centuries, we studied how both early and adult life environments impacted reproductive performance in preindustrial women. Due to a wide geographic range, agricultural production was lower in northern compared to southern parishes, and health conditions were worse in urban than rural parishes. We tested whether reproductive traits and offspring survival varied between early and adult life environments by comparing women who moved between different environments during their lifetime with those who moved parishes but remained in the

SUBMITTER: Colejo-Duran L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11515999 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature