Grandmother hypothesis
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first heard May 2025
last heard 11 Aug
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Hypothesis linking long post‑menopausal lifespan to grandmother role
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newest first · ▶ plays the momentJeremy BamberBoring History for Sleep · The Story of Early Humans 🦴🔥 | How Homo Sapiens Conque... · 1:32:08 · 11 Aug
…The grandmother hypothesis is worth mentioning here because it offers one of the more elegant explanations for a feature of human biology that has puzzled researchers for some time.…
UnknownBoring History for Sleep · Why Do Humans Grow Old So Slowly Compared to Other Animals? ... · 2:15:05 · 12 May
…The dominant evolutionary explanation for human menopause and extended post-reproductive survival is known as the grandmother hypothesis, and it was developed and articulated most influentially by the anthropologist Kristen Hawkes and her colleagues.…
Chris WilliamsonModern Wisdom · How Modern Parenting Got It All Wrong - Dr Paul Turke - #938 · 13:32 · May 2025
…Okay. So, uh, one big, uh, mismatch, um, uh, pan-generational uh alloparenting um and then the sort of inclusion of of grandparents is this in your opinion does this explain the grandmother hypothesis why it is that uh humans exist after they're able to continue reproducing specifically uh mothers or grandmothers yeah i i do i i think um…
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