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Is There a Genetic Switch That Could Have Caused Menopause?
Menopause would have emerged after a time when human females were growing up to be on average older than 40 years old or 45 years old. So there would have had to have been some selection pressure. I guess one other theory is there could have been a weird bottleneck where there was only a small number of human beings and there was a genetic switch.