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This project investigates the ecological and demographic factors influencing human lifespan and senescence, particularly focusing on the unique role of women post-menopause. It aims to understand how reproductive efforts and social dynamics affect fitness and longevity across generations in historical populations.
I propose a novel evolutionary approach for studying ecological and demographic factors that affect senescence and lifespan in humans.
Women are unique among animals due to menopause and a prolonged lifespan after last birth.
Evolutionarily, the quest of everyone is to maximise grandchildren numbers.
Hence, human women life-history is enigmatic.
One possibility is that older women increase their fitness by directing resources to already produced offspring rather than having more.
Thus, although…
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