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q-bio.PE2017
Ignorance can be evolutionarily beneficial
Jared M. Field, Michael B. Bonsall
Information is increasingly being viewed as a resource used by organisms to increase their fitness. Indeed, it has been formally shown that there is a sensible way to assign a repr…
q-bio.PE2017★ 6 cited
Evolutionary stability and the rarity of grandmothering
Jared M. Field, Michael B. Bonsall
The provision of intergenerational care, via the Grandmother Hypothesis, has been implicated in the evolution of post-fertile longevity, particularly in humans. However, if grandmo…