Journal article
Is postmenopausal life-span a gift of modern health or a product of natural selection?
Science of aging knowledge environment, Vol.2002(7), pp.pe3-3
02/20/2002
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/109216
PMID: 14603029
Abstract
The author discusses how researchers from various scientific disciplines view the origins of and mechanisms (evolutionary as well as physiological) underlying menopause in humans. She describes presentations from a symposium centered around interdisciplinary perspectives on female reproductive aging. Comparative zoology, primatology, and anthropology have much to contribute to our understanding of human menopause; hence the symposium contained speakers representing these subdisciplines, as well as the more typical disciplines of endocrinology and neurobiology.
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- Title
- Is postmenopausal life-span a gift of modern health or a product of natural selection?
- Creators
- Donna J Holmes - Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 83844-3051, USA. electric@uidaho.edu
- Publication Details
- Science of aging knowledge environment, Vol.2002(7), pp.pe3-3
- Academic Unit
- Center for Reproductive Biology
- Publisher
- United States
- Identifiers
- 99900547017001842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article