most citedWhy does women's fertility end in mid-life? Grandmothering and age at last birth

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q-bio.PE2026★ 9 cited

Why males compete rather than care, with an application to supplying collective goods

Sara L. Loo, Danya Rose, Michael Weight +2

The question of why males invest more into competition than offspring care is an age-old problem in evolutionary biology. On one hand, paternal care could increase the fraction of…

q-bio.PE2019★ 12 cited

Modelling the evolution of traits in a two-sex population, with an application to grandmothering

M. H. Chan, K. Hawkes, P. S. Kim

We present a mathematical simplification for the evolutionary dynamics of a heritable trait within a two-sex population. This trait is assumed to control the timing of sex-specific…

math.DS2019★ 12 cited

Adult sex ratio as an index for male strategy in primates

D. Rose, K. Hawkes, P. S. Kim

The adult sex ratio (ASR) is defined as the number of fertile males divided by the number of fertile females in a population. We build an ODE model with minimal age structure, in w…

q-bio.PE2019★ 30 cited

Why does women's fertility end in mid-life? Grandmothering and age at last birth

Peter S. Kim, John S. McQueen, Kristen Hawkes

Great apes, the other living members of our hominid family, become decrepit before the age of forty and rarely outlive their fertile years. In contrast, women - even in high mortal…

q-bio.PE2019★ 23 cited

Evolution of longevity, age at last birth and sexual conflict with grandmothering

Matthew H. Chan, Kristen Hawkes, Peter S. Kim

We use a two-sex partial differential equation (PDE) model based on the Grandmother Hypothesis. We build on an earlier model by Kim et al. [27] by allowing for evolution in both lo…