Human reproductive assistance

Kim Hill () and A. Magdalena Hurtado ()
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Kim Hill: Kim Hill is in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change, and the Institute of Human Origins, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287-2402, USA.
A. Magdalena Hurtado: Kim Hill is in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change, and the Institute of Human Origins, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287-2402, USA.

Nature, 2012, vol. 483, issue 7388, 160-161

Abstract: What is the biological explanation for menopause, and for female survival beyond it? A study suggests that competition for help in ancestral societies may have been key to the evolution of this unusual human trait.

Date: 2012
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