A key goal of conservation is to protect biodiversity by supporting the long-term persistence
of viable, natural populations of wild species. Conservation practice has long been guided …

Combined advances in modern medical practice and increased human longevity are driving
an ever-expanding elderly population. Females are particularly at risk of age-associated …

Among mammals, post-reproductive life spans are currently documented only in humans
and a few species of toothed whales. Here we show that a post-reproductive life span exists …

China's 13th Five-Year Plan, launched in March 2016, provides a sound policy platform for
the protection of marine ecosystems and the restoration of capture fisheries within China's …

Understanding how and why menopause has evolved is a long-standing challenge across
disciplines. Females can typically maximize their reproductive success by reproducing for …

In most species the reproductive system ages at the same rate as somatic tissue and
individuals continue reproducing until death. However, females of three species–humans …

Social nonhuman animals are powerful models for studying underlying factors related to
lifelong health outcomes following early life adversities (ELAs). ELAs can be linked to …

This book offers a synthesis of social science and evolutionary approaches to the study of
intergenerational relations, using biological, psychological and sociological factors to …

Williams' evolutionary theory of senescence based on antagonistic pleiotropy has become a
landmark in evolutionary biology, and more recently in biogerontology and evolutionary …

Understanding why females of some mammalian species cease ovulation prior to the end of
life is a long-standing interdisciplinary and evolutionary challenge. In humans and some …