mikeholczer t1_jed2nk2 wrote
Reply to comment by twelveparsnips in eli5: Why do women only have their period/ are fertile for approximately 50 years if they’re born with millions of eggs? by MediumYoghurt3061
Also for most of human evolution, life expectancy was much less than 50 years, so there was no evolutionary pressure to be fertile for longer.
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