title: Is postmenopausal life-span a gift of modern health or a product of natural selection?
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.
authors: Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 83844-3051, USA. electric@uidaho.edu
authors: Donna J
authors: DJ
authors: Holmes
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging / Q000502:physiology; D000818:Animals; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008136:Longevity / Q000502:physiology*; D008593:Menopause / Q000502:physiology; D008875:Middle Aged; D017698:Postmenopause / Q000502:physiology*; D012098:Reproduction / Q000502:physiology