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DTSTAMP:20130619T121902Z
DTSTART:20120515T161500Z
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LOCATION:Dowrick Suite, Trevelyan College
SUMMARY:IAS Fellow's Public Lecture - Why men DON'T have a menopause
DESCRIPTION:When Dick Van Dyke, aged 86, married on February 29th, 2012, t
 he world worried not about his biological clock, but that of his 40-year-o
 ld bride.  This lecture investigates why, when it comes to reproducin
 g, men are more like fish while women follow a pattern seen only in mammal
 s and birds.To understand these gendered patterns, we will follow the evol
 utionary history of reproduction, from fish and amphibians to early primat
 es and, finally, to our own species, Homo sapiens. Along the way, we will 
 consider the controversial results from one laboratory that suggest women 
 are a little more like men than we previously thought. Women may be able t
 o make new eggs from scratch, rather than relying on finite ovarian stores
 . We will also consider why a long post-reproductive life (the "real" meno
 pause) was selected for among women, while men retained the capacity to ma
 ke babies throughout their lifespan. Although a "male menopause" is period
 ically popularized by the media, and information about "male menopause" is
  easy to find on the web, this lecture will clarify the differences betwee
 n the universal loss of fertility in women and the idiosyncratic changes c
 haracteristic of aging men.
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