Simulation of reproductive risk and emergence of female reproductive cessation

A.O. Sousa

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2003, vol. 326, issue 1, 233-240

Abstract: Using a simple computer model for evolution, we show that in a sexual population subject only to age-increasing reproductive risk, a cessation of female reproduction emerges.

Keywords: Population dynamics; Ageing; Monte Carlo simulations; Evolution; Menopause (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(03)00291-7

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