Website review: Menopause sets humans apart from ch...
Fencesandwindows discovered this in Science/Tech
•4 reviews since Dec 14, 2007
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Fencesandwindows discovered 7 months ago- Support for the 'grandmother' hypothesis of menopause.
- sagesomethyme rated 7 months ago
- "Male chimpanzees are consistently more sexually interested in older females, even those like Auntie Rose who was nearly bald," dang!!
- BLUNDER42000 rated 7 months ago
- From the page: "And contrary to the general case in humans, in chimps old females are preferred by males." Well that's what sets us apart from chimps !! Thank goodness I a man and do not suffer from the dreaded menopause.
- darxon rated 7 months ago
- From the page: "Chimps share many traits that we consider to be uniquely human, but now a new study suggests that the menopause really does set humans apart from other apes. A detailed look at long-term fertility data from six populations of chimpanzees, compared with similar data from populations of hunter-gatherer humans, shows that both chimp and human birth rates have similar patterns of reproductive decline after the age of 40. But where chimp survival drops along with fertility, humans stop reproducing and continue to live for a long time. Some chimps in their 40s are in fact better at reproducing than humans at that age. And contrary to the general case in humans, in chimps old females are preferred by males. "Human life history is in fact one of the most radical departures from the apes," says Melissa Emery Thompson, at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, US, who led the research."
