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Increased longevity evolves from grandmothering

Postmenopausal longevity may have evolved in our lineage when ancestral grandmothers subsidized their daughters' fertility by provisioning grandchildren, but the verbal hypothesis has lacked mathematical support until now. Here, we present a formal simulation in which life spans similar to thos...

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Main Authors: Kim, Peter S., Coxworth, James E., Hawkes, Kristen
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicado: The Royal Society 2012
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Acceso en liña:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3497232/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23097518
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2012.1751
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