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Evolutionary psychology

post-menopausal women's help in provisioning grandchildren favored long post-reproductive lifespans in humans.

In evolutionary psychology, grandmother hypothesis refers to post-menopausal women's help in provisioning grandchildren favored long post-reproductive lifespans in humans. This meaning comes from Hawkes (1998) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.[1]

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  1. Hawkes, K., O’Connell, J. F., Jones, N. G. B., Alvarez, H., & Charnov, E. L. (1998). Grandmothering, menopause, and the evolution of human life histories. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 95(3), 1336-1339. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.95.3.1336

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