> fairly regularly during their childbearing years. I seem to recall
> reading (and I'll defer to anyone more expert in this matter) that
in pre-industrial societies menopause usually occured in a woman's
>mid to late thirties.
As I wrote earlier, this is wrong. The age of onset of menopause has not changed in developed countries for centuries (at least that's what my gynecology textbook says).
Sorry to nitpick,
Juha Ratilainen
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