Menstruation evolved to protect the uterus from invasive embryos
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Menstruation and spontaneous decidualization are understood in evolutionary biology as adaptations that protect the maternal organism from excessively invasive embryos.
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The significance and evolution of menstruation.
2018 · cited by 0
States that spontaneous decidualization and menstruation serve as a mechanism to protect the mother from invasive characteristics of the embryo.
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Why do women menstruate? Historical and evolutionary review.
1996 · cited by 0
Explains that menstruation is the shedding of decidualized stroma that evolved in response to highly invasive blastocysts.