Posts linking to a paper
Grandma plays favourites: X-chromosome relatedness and sex-specific childhood mortality
10.1098/rspb.2009.1660
Molly Fox, Rebecca Sear, Jan Beise, Gillian Ragsdale, Eckart Voland, Leslie Knapp
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The grandmothers effect, paternal or maternal matters (?)
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- 30 Oct 2009
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- Gene Expression
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- I've discussed menopause as an adaptation and the grandmother effect before. I was also pleased to see the responses of Larry Moran's readers when he presented his standard anti-adaptationist line of argument. I don't want to retread familiar ground here, I'm not sure if menopause is an adaptatio...
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Grandma Plays Favourites: X-Chromosome Relatedness and Sex-specific Childhood Mortality – Proceedings of the Royal Society B
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- 29 Oct 2009
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- Anthropology.net
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- As this paper is freely accessible for the next 7 days, I’m posting it here in the hope that as many readers as possible will have time to read it through. Molly Fox et al turn their thoughts to the question of why women are able to live for many years after they able to conceive offspring, a phe...
