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Menopause evolved to prevent competition between in-laws


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Brian Krueger, PhD
Columbia University Medical Center
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Wed, Aug 22, 2012, 1:46 pm CDT

There's a pretty significant logical leap in this one, but the fact that women had more grandchildren if they stopped having kids at 50 is pretty interesting.  How that relates to meonpause is squishy.  If we're talking evolutionary time scales, most humans never made it past 30.  So many women would never have lived long enough for menopause to really be selected for.

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