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Grandmother Effect: Why Are We the Only Species in Nature That Experiences a Post‑Reproductive Age – and What’s the Connection to Harry Potter?
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November 3, 2026

Grandmother Effect: Why Are We the Only Species in Nature That Experiences a Post‑Reproductive Age – and What’s the Connection to Harry Potter?

In the entire natural world, females live and give birth until the day they die. So why did evolution design an entire era for women after fertility, and what do we do when the body is left without a "critical key"? Dr. Guy Gutman puts order to the evolutionary paradox and explains how science has found a way to bypass the genetic bug. First episode of a new science series that unveils nature’s amazing mechanisms.

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