Menopause as a Regulatory Device for Matching the Demand for Children with Its Supply: A Hypothesis

Drawing on two assumptions: that menopause is an instrument for the efficient regulation of duration a biologically expensive state, and people have children in order to obtain support from them old age, we set out new idea seeks explain both occurrence its timing. On basis notion purpose having perceive as upper limit fertile when continued ability give birth would not generate desired support. The conjecture yields specific testable predictions, can be assessed against reproductive conflict hypothesis. Being supported by one's offspring distinctive feature humans; this context, cannot rely animal studies evolutionary biology related fields help us ascertain something humans.