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    The grandmother hypothesis is a hypothesis to explain the existence of menopause in human life history by identifying the adaptive value of extended kin...
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  • chance to existing children with a higher survival chance. The Grandmother hypothesis suggests that menopause was selected for humans because it promotes...
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  • maintenance. However, this can be reconciled with the grandmother hypothesis. The Grandmother Hypothesis states that menopause comes about into older women...
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  • hunting prime. Grandmothers are often considered a significant source of allomaternal care and this fact has led to the “grandmother hypothesis”, suggesting...
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  • specific "grandmother cell". The term was coined around 1969 by cognitive scientist Jerry Lettvin. Rather than serving as a serious hypothesis, the "grandmother...
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    PMID 31197416. S2CID 189763393. Blell, Mwenza (29 September 2017). "Grandmother Hypothesis, Grandmother Effect, and Residence Patterns". The International Encyclopedia...
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    The Gaia hypothesis (/ˈɡaɪ.ə/), also known as the Gaia theory, Gaia paradigm, or the Gaia principle, proposes that living organisms interact with their...
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    Retrieved April 24, 2015. Blell, Mwenza (September 29, 2017). "Grandmother Hypothesis, Grandmother Effect, and Residence Patterns". The International Encyclopedia...
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  • the grandmother hypothesis which tends to ignore male benefits of continued spermatogenesis and their roles in assistance. The patriarch hypothesis incorporates...
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    resources in her existing offspring, and in turn their children (the grandmother hypothesis), rather than by continuing to bear children into old age. The life...
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