Synonyms Altriciality life span hypothesis; Mother hypothesis ; Stopping-early hypothesis Definition The grandmother hypothesis states that the long post-reproductive life span in human females would have evolved because women were able to gain more fitness by investing in their adult offspring and grand-offspring rather than by reproducing until old age. Because of this fitness benefit, selection would have favored a longer post-reproductive life span during human evolution.
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Lahdenperä, M., Tanskanen, A. O., & Danielsbacka, M. (2018). Grandmother Hypothesis, The. In Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science (pp. 1–5). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_2340-1
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