natural selection
- n a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment
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- Menopause may have been caused by male's preference for younger women
Natural selection for young mate may have made reproductive abilities in older women useless, new evidence shows
June 14, 2013 - CBS News - Menopause may be an unintended outcome of men's preference for younger mates
After decades of laboring under other theories that never seemed to add up, biologists have concluded that menopause is actually an unintended outcome of natural selection generated by men's historical preference for younger mates.
June 14, 2013 - Science Daily - Male preference for younger female mates identified as likely cause of menopause
( Public Library of Science ) 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 ...
June 13, 2013 - EurekAlert!