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The role of menopause and reproductive senescence in a long-lived social mammal

BACKGROUND: Menopause is a seemingly maladaptive life-history trait that is found in many long-lived mammals. There are two competing evolutionary hypotheses for this phenomenon; in the adaptive view of menopause, the cessation of reproduction may increase the fitness of older females; in the non-ad...

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Autori principali: Ward, Eric J, Parsons, Kim, Holmes, Elizabeth E, Balcomb, Ken C, Ford, John KB
Natura: Artigo
Lingua:Inglês
Pubblicazione: BioMed Central 2009
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Accesso online:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2644688/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19192288
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-9994-6-4
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