Samuel L. Ellis

Mar 13, 2024 | nature.com | Samuel L. Ellis

AbstractUnderstanding how and why menopause has evolved is a long-standing challenge across disciplines. Females can typically maximize their reproductive success by reproducing for the whole of their adult life. In humans, however, women cease reproduction several decades before the end of their natural lifespan1,2. Although progress has been made in understanding the adaptive value of menopause in humans3,4, the generality of these findings remains unclear.

Dec 22, 2023 | biorxiv.org | Peng He |Michael Weiss |Samuel L. Ellis |Daniel W. Franks

AbstractThe mean relatedness of an individual to others in its social group may change with age. Such kinship dynamics, which are expected to influence sex- and age-specific social behaviours, are sensitive to demography. Existing models of kinship dynamics, however, have focused chiefly on the influences of population-level demographic parameters (e.g., sex-specific dispersal rate and mating pattern).

Feb 8, 2023 | cell.com | Michael Weiss |Samuel L. Ellis |Daniel W. Franks |Michael A. Cant

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