Can postfertile life stages evolve as an anticancer mechanism?
Why a postfertile stage has evolved in females of some species has puzzled evolutionary biologists for over 50 years. We propose that existing adaptive explanations have underestimated in their formulation an important parameter operating both at the specific and the individual levels: the balance b...
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Public Library of Science
2019
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