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Menopause: A comparative life history perspective

1991-01-01

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As a life history characteristic of human females, menopause is universal, it occurs halfway through the maximum lifespan of the species, and it consistently occurs at approximately age 50 in different populations. Menopause is fundamentally distinct from the reproductive senescence that has been described for a very small number of very old individual alloprimates. Menopause is not a recent historical artifact. A...

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Literature Corpus work: 144822cc-66f7-550f-bb00-774be07bef79
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.1330340604

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