Male Preference For Younger Female Mates Identified As Likely Cause Of Menopause

A study published in this week's PLOS Computational Biology reports that menopause is an unintended outcome of natural selection caused by the preference of males for younger female mates. While conventional thinking has held that menopause prevents older women from continuing to reproduce, the researchers, from McMaster's University, concluded that it is the lack of reproduction that has given rise to menopause. The researchers found that, over time, competition among men of all ages for younger mates has left older females with much less chance of reproducing...

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