Link: Current thinking on the evolutionary history of menopause
The evolutionary history of menopause in humans has been one of the longest-standing areas of research interest in life history evolution. One of the big ide...
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Fitness in hybrid baboons
It’s rare to have good data on fitness of individuals in wild populations of animals. It’s even more rare to have data on fitness of hybrid individuals in na...
Twins from an adaptive point of view
The biological anthropologist Rebecca Sear looks at the evolution of human twinning in a post for This View of Life: “Solving the Evolutionary Puzzle of Twin...
Sergey Gavrilets on the two fitness landscapes
Sewall Wright’s metaphor of the “fitness landscape” is fundamental in the way many biologists think about adaptation. The idea of a population “climbing” tow...