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Both Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans were initially thought to have evolved from Homo erectus between 300,000 and 200,000 years ago. H. erectus had emerged around 1.8 million years ago, and had long been present, in various subspecies throughout Eurasia.

I did not find a good source for this information so I asked if there was a citation missing or if there is no source for this information

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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780080453378001194

a good source for our Wikipedia article

- Reproductive success introduction (definition)

- Nutritional contribution

- Humans

- Kin selection

- ways of measuring

- population genetics

- life history influences

- Sexual selection

strive for a more generalized article with definitions instead of going into great detail about a specific example

Article

Introduction

- RS differs from fitness in that it does not measure the evolutionary influences of certain genotype and phenotype but it

- RS mostly changes due to environmental and behavioral differences between individuals. These are also the driving factors in evolution but over a much larger time scale.

Ways of measuring

- RS can be measured in two ways, longitudinal studies in which individuals are followed over their life course and cross-sectional studies in which individuals of the same species of a different age are compared. Longitudinal studies are preferred and one of the ways data is collected in the field of anthropology.

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previous introduction entry

Reproductive success is defined as the passing of genes onto the next generation in a way that they too can pass on those genes. This is not solely the number of offspring produced by an individual, but also, as Ronald Fisher outlined in 1915, the probable reproductive success of those offspring, making mate choice (a form of sexual selection) an important factor in this success, making biological fitness a key element in the theories of natural selection and evolution.

Peer review:

Overall you seem to have a lot of ideas that you can contribute to your article, but just keep expanding and giving detail to those ideas instead of listing them. Expansion on those notes will give your article and your future readers much more to learn and branch from. Also i would use the citation tool Wikipedia provides for referencing links instead of listing the URL in the middle of the text. Lastly, explain your use of abbreviations just because it will be more clear for your readers. Overall just keep expanding because i can tell you have a lot of ideas in production!

Adaptations

The peer review was useful in that in made it clear that the information was good but it could be a more cohesive story. I also adjusted the citations and removed any abbreviations to make it extra clear.

Page edits

Introduction

Reproductive success is defined as an individuals production of offspring per breeding event or lifetime. This is not limited by the number of offspring produced by one individual, but also the reproductive success of these offspring themselves. Reproductive success is different form fitness in that individual success is not necessarily a determinant for adaptive strength of a genotype since the effects of chance and the environment have no influence on those specific genes. Reproductive success turns into a part of fitness when the offspring are actually recruited into the breeding population. If offspring quantity is not correlated with quality this holds up, but if not than reproductive success must be adjusted by traits that predict juvenile survival in order to be measured effectively. Quality and quantity is about finding the right balance between reproduction and maintenance and the disposable soma theory of aging tells us that a longer lifespan will come at the cost of reproduction and thus longevity is not always correlated with high fecundity. Parental investment is a key factor in reproductive success since taking better care to offspring is what often will give them a fitness advantage later in life. This includes mate choice and sexual selection as an important factor in reproductive success, which is another reason why reproductive success is different from fitness as individual choices and outcomes are more important than genetic differences. As reproductive success is measured over generations, Longitudinal studies are the preferred study type as they follow a population or an individual over a longer period of time in order to monitor the progression of the individual(s). These long term studies are preferable since they negate the effects of the variation in a single year or breeding season.