Natalie Angier

Evidence now suggests, for example, that girls may not be born with all the eggs they’ll ever have in life—long a bedrock principle of reproductive biology—but instead retain the power to generate new eggs well into their postfetal years.

When I wrote Woman, the use of formulations like Prempro—a combination of estrogen and synthetic progesterone—was on the ascent, prescribed to millions of women aged fifty and older whose own ovaries had retired from the hormonal supply business

Chapter 12 remain relevant. Is menopause an adaptation, shaped by the forces of natural selection, or a byproduct of an unnaturally extended lifespan