Relaxed selection and mutation accumulation are best studied empirically: reply to Woodley of Menie
et al
Proc Biol Sci
.
2018 Feb 28;285(1873):20180092.
doi: 10.1098/rspb.2018.0092.
Authors
Ruben C Arslan
1
,
Kai P Willführ
2
,
Emma M Frans
3
4
,
Karin J H Verweij
5
6
,
Paul-Christian Bürkner
7
,
Mikko Myrskylä
2
8
9
,
Eckart Voland
10
,
Catarina Almqvist
4
11
,
Brendan P Zietsch
6
12
,
Lars Penke
13
14
Affiliations
1
Center for Adaptive Rationality, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany ruben.arslan@gmail.com.
2
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, 18057 Rostock, Germany.
3
Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, Oxford OX3 7JX, UK.
4
Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden.
5
Department of Biological Psychology, VU University, 1081 BT Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
6
School of Psychology, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia.
7
Department of Psychology, University of Münster, 48149 Münster, Germany.
8
Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science, London WC2A 2AE, UK.
9
Population Research Unit, University of Helsinki, 00100 Helsinki, Finland.
10
Department of Biophilosophy, Justus Liebig University Gießen, 35390 Gießen, Germany.
11
Pediatric Allergy and Pulmonology Unit at Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
12
Genetic Epidemiology, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland 4006, Australia.
13
Biological Personality Psychology, Georg Elias Müller Institute of Psychology, Georg August University Göttingen, 37073 Göttingen, Germany.
14
Leibniz ScienceCampus Primate Cognition, 37073 Göttingen, Germany.
PMID:
29467268
PMCID:
PMC5832716
DOI:
10.1098/rspb.2018.0092
No abstract available
Publication types
Comment
MeSH terms
Biological Evolution
Child
Fathers*
Humans
Male
Mutation Accumulation*
Research