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>The benefits and drawbacks that appear after reproduction age can’t be passed on.

If we consider grandparents, they could.

E.g. more fit/older grandparents -> more help and experience sharing for raising the kids given to the parents, more infants survive. This would chose for lineages where grantparents are helpful && live more.

What I meant though is that the main evolutionary pressure of us in in reproduction. Sure some past-reproduction-age traits play a role, but hardly as big.


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