Men 'to blame for the menopause'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Evolutionary geneticists from Canada's McMaster University say men's tendency to choose younger mates meant fertility became pointless for older women.

In PLOS Computational Biology, they say this eventually led to the menopause.

But a UK expert said that was the "wrong way round" and men chose younger women because older women were less fertile.
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Previous theories had proposed a "grandmother effect". This suggests that women lose their fertility at an age where they might not live to see a child grow, and instead are available to care for younger women's children.

The menopause was therefore seen as the block to older women from continuing to reproduce.

I think it makes more sense to see the human male preference for younger females largely as an evolved response to the menopause”

But this latest theory suggests things work the other way around, and that it is the lack of reproduction that has given rise to menopause.'