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标题：Grandmothering, menopause, and the evolution of human life histories
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作者：K. Hawkes ; J. F. O’Connell ; N. G. Blurton Jones 等
期刊名称：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
印刷版ISSN：0027-8424
电子版ISSN：1091-6490
出版年度：1998
卷号：95
期号：3
页码：1336-1339
DOI：10.1073/pnas.95.3.1336
语种：English
出版社：The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
摘要：Long postmenopausal lifespans distinguish humans from all other primates. This pattern may have evolved with mother-child food sharing, a practice that allowed aging females to enhance their daughters' fertility, thereby increasing selection against senescence. Combined with Charnov's dimensionless assembly rules for mammalian life histories, this hypothesis also accounts for our late maturity, small size at weaning, and high fertility. It has implications for past human habitat choice and social organization and for ideas about the importance of extended learning and paternal provisioning in human evolution.