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The role of menopause and reproductive senescence in a long-lived social mammal
BACKGROUND: Menopause is a seemingly maladaptive life-history trait that is found in many long-lived mammals. There are two competing evolutionary hypotheses for this phenomenon; in the adaptive view of menopause, the cessation of reproduction may increase the fitness of older females; in the non-ad...
Autores principales: | Ward, Eric J, Parsons, Kim, Holmes, Elizabeth E, Balcomb, Ken C, Ford, John KB |
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Formato: | Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2009
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2644688/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19192288 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-9994-6-4 |
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