Testing evolutionary theories of menopause

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• Publication year

  2007

• Venue

  Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

• Publication date

  2007-12-07

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1098/rspb.2007.1028PMID 17878141PMCID PMC2291159
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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