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Generation time
In population biology and demography, generation time is the average time between two consecutive generations in the lineages of a population. In human populations, generation time typically has ranged from 20 to 30 years, with wide variation based on gender and society.[1][2] Historians sometimes use this to date events, by converting generations into years to obtain rough estimates of time.
- ^ Fenner, Jack N. (28 March 2005). "Cross-Cultural Estimation of the Human Generation Interval for Use in Genetics-Based Population Divergence Studies" (PDF). American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 128 (2): 415–423. doi:10.1002/ajpa.20188. hdl:1885/37062. PMID 15795887. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
- ^ Wang, Richard J.; Al-Saffar, Samer I.; Rogers, Jeffrey; Hahn, Matthew W. (6 January 2023). "Human generation times across the past 250,000 years". Science Advances. 9 (1): eabm7047. Bibcode:2023SciA....9M7047W. doi:10.1126/sciadv.abm7047. PMC 9821931. PMID 36608127.
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