Todd wrote:
> Menopause,
another human idiosyncrasy, remains unexplained.

There are at least some interesting theories being forwarded.

One discussion's at http://www.lionresearch.org/current/menopause.html; the
material I'd heard more about is here:
http://www.boston.com/globe/search/stories/health/science_musings/062298.htm
(anthropologist Kristen Hawkes' work); this was also of some interest:
http://www.cast.uark.edu/local/icaes/conferences/wburg/posters/oconnell/ocon
nell.html

C.B.

PS: I suppose it could all just boil down to that line about old age and
treachery?


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