Reproductive Suppression in Female Primates: A Review
Reproductive Suppression in Female Primates: A Review
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DOI：
10.1002/evan.21369
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发表时间：
2013-09-01
影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
Lu, Amy
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作者：
Beehner, Jacinta C.;Lu, Amy
繁殖能力是进化的货币。在所有条件相同的情况下，有机体应该尽可能多地繁殖。因此，进化生物学中令人困惑的问题不是生物体如何以及为什么繁殖，而是生物体如何以及为什么不繁殖。很难理解为什么任何个体，特别是雌性，可能会在雌性哺乳动物生殖的最大限制之一是时间（即生殖寿命）时阻止生殖。现在行为生态学中广泛引用的答案很简单：生殖抑制可能是一种适应性策略。
Reproductive performance is the currency of evolution. All things being equal, an organism should reproduce as often as possible. The puzzling questions in evolutionary biology, therefore, are not how and why an organism does reproduce, but rather how and why an organism does not reproduce. It is difficult to understand why any individual, particularly a female, might forestall reproduction when one of the biggest limitations for female mammalian reproduction is time (that is, reproductive lifespan). The answer, now widely cited throughout behavioral ecology is quite simple: Reproductive suppression can be an adaptive strategy.