The evolution of menopause

Nature

Volumn 392, Issue 6678, 1998, Pages 759-760

  Sherman, Paul W ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BIRTH DEFECT; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MENOPAUSE; NONHUMAN; OVULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENESCENCE; SHORT SURVEY; THEORY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AGING; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIONS; MALE; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PAPIO; SELECTION (GENETICS);

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032560198     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/33805     Document Type: Short Survey

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