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Go, Grandma; There's a reason women live well past menopause.
Byline: Jaime Cunningham
If you thought your grandmother's main function in life was to bake you brownies, think again. Scientists have long puzzled over whether there's any reason, evolutionarily speaking, for women to live long past menopause, when they can no longer bear children. Last week scientists found that there is. The study, published in the journal Nature, looked at 500 women in Finland and 2,300 women in Canada during the 18th and 19th centuries and found that the length of a woman's post-reproductive lifespan correlated with the number of grandchildren she had. "Post menopausal women are having an effect on reproduction," says Kristen Hawkes, an anthropology professor at the University of Utah. By ...
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