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Title: Menopause averted a midlife energetic crisis with help from older children and parents: A simulation study. By @edhagen.net

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1. Preprint: Menopause averted a midlife energetic crisis with help from older children and parents: A simulation study. zenodo.org/records/1814...

Menopause is rare, known to occur only in humans and toothed whales: 🧵
Post-reproductive lifespans of humans, African great apes and other primates, and toothed whales. Values represent the life expectancy from the end of the fertile period as a proportion of life expectancy from the beginning of the fertile period. Human and nonhuman primate values are from Wood et al. (2023), except for the largest gorilla value, which is from Smit & Robbins (2025). Toothed whale values are from Ellis, Franks, Nattrass, Currie, et al. (2018). Chart shows that these values are high for humans and toothed whales, and low for primates
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Menopause averted a midlife energetic crisis with help from older children and parents: A simulation study
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January 9, 2026 at 11:37 PM
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1. Preprint: Menopause averted a midlife energetic crisis with help from older children and parents: A simulation study. zenodo.org/records/1814...

Menopause is rare, known to occur only in humans and toothed whales: 🧵
Post-reproductive lifespans of humans, African great apes and other primates, and toothed whales. Values represent the life expectancy from the end of the fertile period as a proportion of life expectancy from the beginning of the fertile period. Human and nonhuman primate values are from Wood et al. (2023), except for the largest gorilla value, which is from Smit & Robbins (2025). Toothed whale values are from Ellis, Franks, Nattrass, Currie, et al. (2018). Chart shows that these values are high for humans and toothed whales, and low for primates
January 6, 2026 at 2:53 PM