ANTB14H3 Chapter 6: Chapter 6

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In primates and other mammals, selection tends to favour low male investment because females lactate and males don"t. Reproductive strategies of females: female primates invest heavily in each of their offspring, female"s reproductive success depends on ability to obtain enough resources to support herself and. Important differences between reproductive termination in monkeys and apes and menopause in humans: there is gradual decline in fertility with age in other primates. Humans, there is abrupt and complete cessation of reproduction at about 50 yrs of age: relatively few primates live to age of reproductive termination. Human, menopause occurs about midway through maximum human life span www. notesolution. com: length of post reproduce life span considerably longer in humans than it is in other primates. In mammalian males, sexual selection can have greater effect on behaviour and morphology that do other forms of natural selection because male reproductive success usually varies much more then female reproductive success.

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