Somatic maintenance/reproduction tradeoffs and human evolution

Behavioral and Brain Sciences 45:e138 (2022)
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The authors propose that many morbidities higher in women than men are adaptations protecting survival, selected because survival has been especially crucial to mothers' reproductive success. Following their lead, I pursue variation in tradeoffs between reproduction and survival recognized by Darwin that were likely central to the evolution of many traits that distinguish us from our great ape cousins.

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10.1017/s0140525x22000474

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