{"id":9868,"date":"2011-06-05T18:21:33","date_gmt":"2011-06-05T18:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/06\/05\/sacrifice-on-the-serengeti\/"},"modified":"2011-06-05T18:21:33","modified_gmt":"2011-06-05T18:21:33","slug":"sacrifice-on-the-serengeti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/05\/sacrifice-on-the-serengeti\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacrifice on the Serengeti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Life History, Genetic Relatedness, and the Evolution of Menopause<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Imagine you&#8217;re on the Serengeti Plateau and your children are hungry. For miles in every direction there&#8217;s nothing but dry scrub grass with the occasional flat-topped acacia tree marking the landscape. Your oldest has found a spot to dig for tubers but he and your daughter aren&#8217;t strong enough to scrape away the hard, baked earth by themselves. Your husband is tracking a wounded gazelle and could be gone for days. Meanwhile, the infant slung to your hip has started screaming and the distinctive sound triggers a release of oxytocin that causes your breasts to swell and leak. You have to feed her but you can&#8217;t do that and make sure your other children get enough to eat. There&#8217;s a very real chance that some of them will be too weak to survive the next time fever breaks out unless you can get help. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read this excellent review <a href=\"http:\/\/carinbondar.com\/2010\/08\/sacrifice-on-the-serengeti-a-guest-post-by-eric-m-johnson\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a guest post on Carin Bondar&#8217;s blog written by Eric Michael Johnson.  If you like the post you can vote for it in the Quark Award &#8230; Just go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.3quarksdaily.com\/3quarksdaily\/3-quarks-daily-2011-science-prize-vote-here-.html\">here<\/a> and search for &#8216;Dr. Carin Bondar&#8221; and vote for that article (which is actually by Eric Michael Johnson)<\/p>\n<p>Changing authorship on a blog is a pain, and is often impossible, thus the confusion in authorship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life History, Genetic Relatedness, and the Evolution of Menopause Imagine you&#8217;re on the Serengeti Plateau and your children are hungry. For miles in every direction there&#8217;s nothing but dry scrub grass with the occasional flat-topped acacia tree marking the landscape. Your oldest has found a spot to dig for tubers but he and your daughter &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/05\/sacrifice-on-the-serengeti\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sacrifice on the Serengeti<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2za","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9868"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}