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The evolution of menopause in toothed whales.
Article in Nature, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.
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- Evolutionary genetics of ageing.Nature reviews. Genetics · 2026Review
- Why did menopause evolve?Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Yulendji Bunwurrung Walagunh With Western Science: Ecological Insights, Emerging Research Questions and Future Directions From Bunurong Stories of Marine Mammals.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Menopause Averted a Midlife Energetic Crisis With Help From Older Dependent Children and Parents: A Simulation Study.American journal of biological anthropology · 2026Article
- Sex Hormones & Exercise in the Musculoskeletal System: From Signaling to Structure and Function.Endocrine reviews · 2026Article
- How toothed whales divide up the world: phylogeny and ecology shape life-history strategies of odontocetes.BMC ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- The neuromodulatory fragility hypothesis of Alzheimer's disease pathogenesis.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2026Article
- Menopause in nonhuman mammals-What does it mean for the gynecologist?Acta obstetricia et gynecologica Scandinavica · 2026Article
- Reproductive Sciences to the Rescue of Wild Animal Species.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2026Review
- The Kinship Formula: Inferring the numbers of all kin from any structured population projection model.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Post-reproductive lifespan in wild mountain gorillas.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- The pace and shape of ant ageing.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2025Review
- No Evidence That Life History Strategies Shape Within-Body Mosaics of Ageing.Molecular ecology · 2025Article
- Studying ovarian aging and its health impacts: modern tools and approaches.Genes & development · 2025Review
- Biomarkers of aging: from molecules and surrogates to physiology and function.Physiological reviews · 2025Review
- The evolutionary puzzle of cognition: challenges and insights from individual-based studies.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Review
- Developmental life history transitions can be shaped by structural inequities: Insights from the sociology of race.Developmental biology · 2025Review
- Demography of grandmothering: a case study in Agta foragers.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Evolution of the Human Life Cycle, Revisited.American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council · 2025Article
- Higher blood lipid levels after the transition to menopause in two forager-horticulturalist populations.Evolution, medicine, and public health · 2025Article
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5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Understanding how and why menopause has evolved is a long-standing challenge across disciplines. Females can typically maximize their reproductive success by reproducing for the whole of their adult life. In humans, however, women cease reproduction several decades before the end of their natural lifespan
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