Human Generation Times across the Past 250,000 Years

A study of human generation times across the past 250,000 years. The companion cites it for a human generation time of about 27 years, the slow end of the biological range in Fig. 6b. It sets the baseline against which designed lineages decouple generation time from complexity (trial-bound tempo, P6).

Cited in

the companion paper (Companion §6.3, Fig. 6)

Used for

P6P6; Fig. 6b

Strand

Evolution & heredity · Tempo, rates & generation times

Cite

@article{wang2023human,
  title = {Human Generation Times across the Past 250,000 Years},
  author = {Richard J. Wang and Samer I. Al-Saffar and Jeffrey Rogers and Matthew W. Hahn},
  year = {2023},
  journal = {Science Advances},
  doi = {10.1126/sciadv.abm7047},
}