Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2011 · 12 citations · 4 references
Life SciencesBiologyEvolutionary BiologyGerontologyHuman EvolutionLifespan DevelopmentLife Course AgingLife ExpectancyLongevityNatural SelectionReproductive AgingSelection TheoryEvolution Of Human LongevityGrandmother HypothesisNatural Selection SignaturesReproductive Longevity
Despite growing evidence that the long female post-reproductive lifespan may not be unique to humans and may not even require an adaptive explanation [[1][1]], grandmothering remains among the leading hypotheses for the evolution of human longevity. This is due in part to the fact several (though,
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