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  • Title: Is postmenopausal life-span a gift of modern health or a product of natural selection?
    Author: Holmes DJ.
    Journal: Sci Aging Knowledge Environ; 2002 Feb 20; 2002(7):pe3. PubMed ID: 14603029.
    Abstract:
    The author discusses how researchers from various scientific disciplines view the origins of and mechanisms (evolutionary as well as physiological) underlying menopause in humans. She describes presentations from a symposium centered around interdisciplinary perspectives on female reproductive aging. Comparative zoology, primatology, and anthropology have much to contribute to our understanding of human menopause; hence the symposium contained speakers representing these subdisciplines, as well as the more typical disciplines of endocrinology and neurobiology.
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