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- adjective Following a
productive stage
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Population-level food sharing with nonkin leads to the classic pattern of constant low mortality up to sexual maturity and no postreproductive survival.
Archive 2008-06-01 2008
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Postreproductive adults transfer food to descendants, enhancing their growth and survival, so postreproductive survival is selected.
Archive 2008-06-01 2008
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Postreproductive adults transfer food to descendants, enhancing their growth and survival, so postreproductive survival is selected.
Some Links 2008
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Population-level food sharing with nonkin leads to the classic pattern of constant low mortality up to sexual maturity and no postreproductive survival.
Some Links 2008
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The body changes that occur between the reproductive and postreproductive phases of our life often take place over as many as fifteen years.
OUR BODIES, OURSELVES The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective 2005
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