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Grandmothering, Menopause, And The Evolution Of Human Life Histories, K. Hawkes, J.F. O'Connell, N.G. Blurton Jones, H. Alvarez, Eric Charnov
Grandmothering, Menopause, And The Evolution Of Human Life Histories, K. Hawkes, J.F. O'Connell, N.G. Blurton Jones, H. Alvarez, Eric Charnov
Biology Faculty & Staff Publications
Long postmenopausal lifespans distinguish humans from all other primates. This pattern may have evolved with mother—child food sharing, a practice that allowed aging females to enhance their daughters fertility, thereby increasing selection against senescence. Combined with Charnov's dimensionless assembly rules for mammalian life histories, this hypothesis also accounts for our late maturity, small size at weaning, and high fertility. It has implications for past human habitat choice and social organization and for ideas about the importance of extended learning and paternal provisioning in human evolution.
A Resource Range Invariance Rule For Optimal Offspring Size Predicts Patterns Of Variability In Parental Phenotypes, Jerry Downhower, Eric Charnov
A Resource Range Invariance Rule For Optimal Offspring Size Predicts Patterns Of Variability In Parental Phenotypes, Jerry Downhower, Eric Charnov
Biology Faculty & Staff Publications
No abstract provided.
Specimen Catalog, Polly Campbell
Specimen Catalog, Polly Campbell
Division of Mammals - Field Notes and Catalogs
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Specimen Catalog, Part 2, Brian D. Frank
Specimen Catalog, Part 2, Brian D. Frank
Division of Mammals - Field Notes and Catalogs
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