Chimpanzees also go through menopause
The discovery shows that humans are not the only primate to live beyond their reproductive years and adds mystery to this apparent evolutionary illogic
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The discovery shows that humans are not the only primate to live beyond their reproductive years and adds mystery to this apparent evolutionary illogic
Humans are outliers for the way many of us, along with a handful of toothed whale species and Asian elephants, will live well beyond our reproductive years.
Menopause is a rarity in the animal kingdom. Humans and some species of toothed whales are the only known animals to go through menopause.
Females in Uganda national park spend a fifth of their lives in post-fertile state
A new study is shaking up the world of evolutionary biology by offering some of the first evidence of menopause in a wild, non-human primate population. The findings complicate pre-existing ideas around the evolutionary function of menopause.