Quote: (04-23-2013 12:57 AM)soup Wrote:
Does anyone know the evolutionary reason for why women are still able to produce for several years after their looks tank and hit the wall?
My guess would be that there wasn't much of a selective pressure on the trait. the age of reproduction ends when offspring start being born with a higher frequency of defects. This would be correlated with age and since the life expectancy wasn't too long I think the trait just developed along with that