Word: menstrual
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...reduced chances of developing the illnesses. "I kept trying to disprove the findings," Suarez says. "I put in age, but age did not do anything to destroy the results. I put in race because blacks often report worse sleep than whites, but nothing happened." Smoking and, for women, menstrual status did not eliminate the gender gap either...
...best-known illustration of the invisible influence of scent is the way the menstrual cycles of women who live communally tend to synchronize. In a state of nature, this is a very good idea. It's not in a tribe's or community's interests for one ovulating female to monopolize the reproductive attention of too many males. Better to have all the females become fertile at once and allow the fittest potential mates to compete with one another for them...
...best-known illustration of the invisible influence of scent is the way the menstrual cycles of women who live communally tend to synchronize. In a state of nature, this is a very good idea. It's not in a tribe's or community's interests for one ovulating female to monopolize the reproductive attention of too many males. Better to have all the females become fertile at once and allow the fittest potential mates to compete with one another for them...
...Venezuelan rain forest, reachable only by dugout canoe. Biologist Ramiro Royero has set up a computerized field office there to collect data on a plant still unknown to the outside world: a shrub whose poinsettia-like leaves are steeped as a medicinal tea by the Piaroa tribe to relieve menstrual cramps--without the caffeine jitters and other side effects caused by most of today's commercial remedies...
...developing an unprecedented, classified database of plants and animals that have commercial potential as medicines and foods. Companies that see a scientifically verified, patented discovery advertised on the database would pay--through the central government, to the appropriate tribe--a fee for the classified information. Afterward, should a new menstrual-pain remedy or strain of soybean be commercialized as a result, the company would then be required to pay the community royalties...