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“We always knew that these post-reproductive females were around,” says co-author Kevin Langergraber, a primatologist at Arizona State University in Tempe, who has been studying the Ngogo population since 2001. But he says that it was a surprise to realize that the chimpanzees were undergoing the same physiological process as humans, rather than the decline in fertility being because of illness.
Source: Nature Menopausal chimpanzees deepen the mystery of why women stop reproducing
I don't understand why the word "being" is inserted here. It seems to be redundant and can be removed altogether without affecting the meaning.
I am not absolutely sure. Does it have any function?
Source: Nature Menopausal chimpanzees deepen the mystery of why women stop reproducing
I don't understand why the word "being" is inserted here. It seems to be redundant and can be removed altogether without affecting the meaning.
I am not absolutely sure. Does it have any function?