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. 2023 Jan 2;33(1):11–29. doi: 10.1038/s41422-022-00718-7

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Fig. 2 — The human female is one of a few selected species of mammals with a significant post-reproductive lifespan. The significance of menopause is extensively being debated on whether it is a vestigial evolutionary inheritance or has crucial implication in conferring evolutionary survival of the fittest to our early days’ ancestors as been reproduced from Ellis et al.³⁶ (Open access license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Image legend has been shifted to the top left of the image from the original image).