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The Evolutionary Puzzle of Human Twinship
2023-11-15
Abstract excerpt
Natural selection should favor litter sizes that optimize trade-offs between brood-size and offspring viability. Across the primate order, modal litter size is one, suggesting a deep history of selection favoring minimal litters. Humans, however---despite having the longest juvenile period and slowest life-history of all primates---still produce twin-births at appreciable rates, even though such births are costly....
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- bbf2d68f-48ee-5532-8556-74868c48472b
- DOI
- 10.32942/x2qp5x