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Anthropology and the study of menopause: evolutionary, developmental, and comparative perspectives.

Menopause (New York, N.Y.) - 1 Oct 2014

Sievert Lynnette Leidy

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OBJECTIVE: This work aims to consider how the discipline of anthropology contributes to the study of menopause through evolutionary, developmental, and comparative perspectives. METHODS: This study was a review of skeletal and ethnographic evidence for menopause and postreproductive life in humans' distant past, hypotheses for the evolution of menopause and long postreproductive life, variation in age at...

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PMID: 25232712
DOI: 10.1097/GME.0000000000000341

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