Deena’s scientific publications on Google Scholar:

A few curated articles on the evolution of periods and pregnancy:

  • The evolution of menstruation: a new model for genetic assimilation: explaining molecular origins of maternal responses to fetal invasiveness

  • Transformation of a transposon into a derived prolactin promoter with function during human pregnancy

  • Convergent evolution of endometrial prolactin expression in primates, mice, and elephants through the independent recruitment of transposable elements

“The evolution of pregnancy was driven by ancient genomic parasites that invaded our DNA for millions of years”