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Letter: Letter

Published 3 November 2001

From Anna Kenway

I have often wondered what possible evolutionary advantage could be afforded
by PMT. Presumably, its effect on the males of a tribe where the females were
all on the same cycle was to provide an added incentive to leave the group for a
while and go hunting.

Edinburgh

Issue no. 2315 published 3 November 2001

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