Avoidance of reproductive conflict and the evolution of menopause in chimpanzees
The reproductive conflict hypothesis suggests menopause is rare in nature because it is only evolutionarily favoured in specific dispersal and mating systems. In social groups with local mating, shared resource competition and female-biased dispersal, an increase in a breeding female’s relatedness t...
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| Language: | English |
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The Royal Society
2025-06-01
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| Series: | Royal Society Open Science |
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| Online Access: | https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.250385 |
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