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Quote by: Night  What I'm asking is, why would menopause happen in woman everywhere (meaning it had to be very important evolutionarily) when most woman never got old enough to go through menopause? |
I provided the answer. It is not simply a matter of the woman surviving, but her children surviving as well. Her children's survival is increased if she stops having children. This also comes up in the abortion issue. The primary reasoning for killing infants, is the survival of the mother and her living children. A child at the wrong time, is dangerous liability, so nature helps us out by reducing our child bearing years.
Long lived women played an important role in the survival of humanity.