Chimpanzees live long lives and reproduce slowly, with high infant and juvenile mortality rates. Thus, the probability is low that females will give birth successively to sons who will reach adulthood together. ... Although females occasionally do hunt, adult and adolescent males make over ninety percent of the kills. ... Food sharing does not traditionally occur between males and related females, as the males tend to share meat with male allies and unrelated adult females (Boyd & Silk, 2003). ... This tactic directly increases the proportion of unrelated estrous females to males. ...

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There are many characteristics that both males and females value in a potential mate. ... Men put greater emphasis on attractiveness as female beauty relates to a woman's reproductive ability. ... Since women have to make a greater obligatory investment in offspring though gestation and infant care, they have more of a choice about whom they are going to mate. ... Sexual dimorphism is the disparity between the size of the male and female. ... "If we define the sexualization of women as objectification per se, and thereby as degrading and disempowering, we lose touch with an image on ...

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However, the author claims that this was not a good idea because it increased the rate of maternal and infant mortality in the region. ... The issue of women rape was also evident in the book during the conversation between Monique and the author on female genital mutation. ... The rate of infant and maternal mortality is also high in the region because the author claims that one in every twelve women dies when giving birth while one in every five children do not live to celebrate their fifth birthday. ... Even though the story narrative narrates much about midwifery, and infant and maternal m...

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However, Simpson's assertions don't end here; fetuses are not an ordinary "organ of [the female] body]...but an organism [Simpson 6].... While John Noonan's anti abortion argument declares "it is wrong to kill humans...defenseless, and lacking in opportunity to develop their potential...it is therefore morally wrong to kill infants. ...

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If a doctor or any health care professional just stood by during the birth of a child and both the child and the mother were dying, how could that doctor stand there and watch both the mother and the infant die without taking some method of action. ... If we compare a severely defective human infant with a non-human animal, a dog or a pig, for example, we will often find the non-human to have superior capacities, both actual and potential, for rationality, self-consciousness, communication, and any other that can plausibly be considered morally significant" (Singer 201). ... However, in German...

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