Includes bibliographical references and index Introduction / Richard R. Paine and Kristen Hawkes The derived features of human life history / Shannen Robson, Carel van Schaik, and Kristen Hawkes Life history theory and human evolution : a chronicle of ideas and findings / Kristen Hawkes Slow life histories and human evolution / Kristen Hawkes Primate life histories and the role of brains / Carel van Schaik ... [et al.] Lactation, complementary feeding, and human life history / Daniel Sellen Modern human life history : the evolution of human childhood and fertility / Barry Bogin Contemporary hunter-gatherers and human life history evolution / Nicholas Blurton Jones The osteological evidence for human longevity in the recent past / Lyle Konigsberg and Nicholas Herrmann Paleodemographic data and why understanding Holocene demography is essential to understanding human life history evolution in the Pleistocene / Richard R. Paine and Jesper Boldsen The evolution of modern human life history : a paleontological perspective / Matthew Skinner and Bernard Wood | 
