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Article #2581Re: menopause
From: Simon Blomberg
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 00:06
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 00:06
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gmt@ukc.ac.uk (G.M.Tardivel) writes: >On a similar theme to the longevity of males: > >Is the menopause confined to humans? primates? mammals? >Is it a feature of longevity - would all female animals have one >if they survived long enough? >or >Is there a selective advantage to having a menopause - would females with a >menopause leave more breeding progeny than those without? >(and of course, would men live longer with one?) >J. Tardivel Check out Jared Diamond's recent book "The rise and fall of the third chimpanzee" for one evolutionary ecologist's view of menopause (and other aspects of the human mating system). I seem to remember references to the primary literature in the back, too. Simon. -- Simon Blomberg simonb@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU School of Biol. Sciences, A08 University of Sydney We demand the right to stop to look even at NSW 2006 Australia lizards, who are nobody's property. -JBS Haldane
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Newsgroups: sci.bio Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!metro!extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU!simonb From: simonb@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Simon Blomberg) Subject: Re: menopause Message-ID: <simonb.724377961@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU> Sender: news@ucc.su.OZ.AU Nntp-Posting-Host: extro.ucc.su.oz.au Organization: Sydney University Computing Service, Sydney, NSW, Australia References: <58@mango.ukc.ac.uk> Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 00:06:01 GMT Lines: 32