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The possible significance of menopause in human evolution
The Grandmother hypothesis considers that the menopause may have been selected for in human evolution, because later life infertility could actually have conferred an evolutionary advantage by allowing older women to spend more time helping with the survival of their existing children and grandchildren.
In the past, the studies on cessated of the menstrual cycle after 40 years of age in women was very rare.
A French physician named the cessation of menstrual cycle as term of menopause in 1821.
Menopause in other species
Unlike humans, other mammals rarely experience menopause, but it does exist in some of the other few mammal species that experience menstrual cycles, such as rhesus monkeys[1] and some cetaceans.[2]
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