It has long been claimed that Homo sapiens is the only species that has language, but only
recently has it been recognized that humans also have an unusual pattern of growth and …

A robust, often underappreciated, feature of human biology is that women live longer than
men not just in technologically advanced, low-mortality countries such as those in Europe or …

Nerve myelination facilitates saltatory action potential conduction and exhibits
spatiotemporal variation during development associated with the acquisition of behavioral …

While it is commonly believed that animals live longer in zoos than in the wild, this
assumption has rarely been tested. We compared four survival metrics (longevity, baseline …

Human menopause is remarkable in that reproductive senescence is markedly accelerated
relative to somatic aging, leaving an extended postreproductive period for a large proportion …

Early survival is highly variable and strongly influences observed population growth rates in
most vertebrate populations. One of the major potential drivers of survival variation among …

The grandmother hypothesis (GH) of Hawkes et al.([1998]: Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 95: 1336–
1339) finds that selection for lower adult mortality and greater longevity allow for the …

Abstract Utilizing the Great Ape Information Network (GAIN), an open-access nationwide
database containing the detailed life history information of all apes who have lived or …

Two kinds of evidence suggest that female fertility may end at an earlier age in modern
people than in ancestral populations or in our closest living relatives, chimpanzees. We …

Detailed, long-term datasets on the life histories of long-lived species such as great apes are
necessary to understand their survival patterns but are relatively rare. Such information …