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Half as high for twice as long: patriarchy and the age-structure of human fertility
2025-05-23
Abstract excerpt
Humans are distinguished from our closest living relatives, other great apes, by our extended postmenopausal longevity, later first births, and shorter birth intervals. Those features likely evolved as ancestral grandmothers’ foraging subsidized dependants in habitats lacking foods that youngsters could manage for themselves. If so, as female post-fertile years increased, older years increased in males too. Those...
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- Literature Corpus work
- fda3ed34-97b6-593d-9491-7060e7a70f1c
- DOI
- 10.1101/2025.05.19.654849