{"id":178063,"date":"2023-12-11T22:24:01","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T04:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/revolutionary-discovery-menopause-in-wild-chimpanzees-challenges-human-uniqueness"},"modified":"2023-12-11T22:24:01","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T04:24:01","slug":"revolutionary-discovery-menopause-in-wild-chimpanzees-challenges-human-uniqueness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/revolutionary-discovery-menopause-in-wild-chimpanzees-challenges-human-uniqueness","title":{"rendered":"Revolutionary Discovery: Menopause in Wild Chimpanzees Challenges Human Uniqueness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/revolutionary-discovery-menopause-in-wild-chimpanzees-challenges-human-uniqueness2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers has been studying the Ngogo community of wild chimpanzees in Uganda\u2019s Kibale National Park for over twenty years. Their recent publication in the journal <em><i>Science<\/i><\/em> reveals that female chimpanzees in this population can experience menopause and have a postreproductive lifespan.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the study, these traits had only been found among mammals in a few species of toothed whales, and among primates \u2014 only in humans. These new demographic and physiological data can help researchers better understand why menopause and post-fertile survival occur in nature, and how it evolved in the human species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers has been studying the Ngogo community of wild chimpanzees in Uganda\u2019s Kibale National Park for over twenty years. Their recent publication in the journal Science reveals that female chimpanzees in this population can experience menopause and have a postreproductive lifespan. Prior to the study, these traits had only been found among [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}