 |
| Charles Darwin |
Oh dear. Now it appears, according to busy fertility researchers at McMaster University that “men are to blame” for menopause occurring when it does because in their older years they prefer younger women to older ones. The idea seems to be that older women just give up and will their fertility to shut down. British researchers have called this odd view a load of codswhallop. Menopause, they say, is something that evolved through millions of years of very short life spans when women in their 30s did not live long enough to look after their later-born offspring. Happily they could assist in the care of children of younger women. The British experts insist that a man’s preference for younger women is a classic example of Darwin’s theory that those who are able to survive (the fittest) are the ones who in fact survive. Darwin had no time for the popular fear of “dirty old men”. There’s no way of knowing but he may have been one, purely in the scientific sense of course. BBC
