ovulation

Competition for mates between prehistoric human women may have contributed to ‘concealed ovulation’ – a lack of any notable physical clues that a woman is fertile, experts say.  Using computational models, US researchers found evidence that concealed ovulation in humans – which is generally unusual in the animal kingdom – evolved to allow women to hide their … Read more

Prehistoric competition among human females contributed to ‘concealed ovulation’ – a lack of any notable physical clues that a woman is fertile, experts say.  Using computational models, US researchers found evidence that concealed ovulation evolved to allow females to hide their fertility status from other females. This would have helped avoid female conflict, perhaps driven by aggression … Read more