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Why do Women go Through Menopause?

A new study supports the hypothesis that menopause and female life span beyond the ability to have children evolved because the advantage of helping daughters reproduce and raise their children outweighed the advantages of continuing to give birth. In other words, natural selection favored menopause, long life and perhaps even close family ties, because only grandmothers who are not busy feeding their own children have time to help with grandchildren. The study, which concluded that...