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. 2017 Jan:40:e111.
doi: 10.1017/S0140525X16001369.

The life history model of the insurance hypothesis

Bin-Bin Chen  1
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The life history model of the insurance hypothesis

Bin-Bin Chen. Behav Brain Sci. 2017 Jan.

Abstract

Nettle et al.'s explanation based on the insurance hypothesis applies only to the association between food insecurity and body weight among adult women, but not to the results about there being no such associations among adult men and children. These results may be best understood when the insurance hypothesis is integrated with the life history model.

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