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1 | Hawkes, Kristen | 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 those of ... | Human evolution; Life history; Sexual conflict | 2012-01-01 |