Did Racquel Welch lead Stone Age man astray?See, too much clubbing reduces longevity. Or somethin'.
Did Racquel Welch lead Stone Age man astray?See, too much clubbing reduces longevity. Or somethin'.
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Seems to me the researcher has an agenda here. Female longevity has greatly benefited from better health care. In prehistoric times, food surpluses led to lower mortality rates and longer lifespans, but also to larger family size (and also made civilization possible). As the agrarian percentage of the population declined due to mechanization, the need for larger families declined. And of course, there have been political pressures toward so-called zero population growth. |
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Another “scientific finding” that is nothing but fancy guessing. By the same reasoning of this article, there is absolutely no reason that women live twice as long as their reproductive capability. Yet, such inconvenient facts don’t slow down such wild conjecture even for a second.
I might as well go find a rock at random along the road and create a 300 page thesis about how it got exactly where it is. After all, I have the strong supporting evidence that it is, in fact, exactly where my hypothesis says it must be.
If the article is complete, the Cambridge professor seems to attribute the weakness in lifespan selection forces in males solely to a brutish lifestyle. If in fact evolutionary selection forces are at work here, the professor seemingly overlooks the fact that males can produce viable young for a longer period during their lives than females. This very important fact would seem to deserve at least a mention in this research because possibly it was the extended breeding capacity in males that resulted in a selection for shorter lives?
It would seem that the Telegraph has taken some serious biological research and "selected for" the parts that fits their agenda. Fortunately evolutionary forces select for characteristics beneficial to the species and not a political ideology. Hopefully some day, economic forces will select for the extinction of these news rags.
"Ahem. Next time, try doing some research first."
According to this article, I’m a DEAD MAN WALKING! ! !
I’ve spent most of my money on Wine, Women and Song! The rest I just wasted!
that’s why I’m so shot out at 50.
worth every bit of it.....just wish I could been shot out sooner
i musta been slow
“..you find that kings do not live as long as queens.”
Obviously never was in Greenwich Village or San Francisco.
There is a simple reason that most men die before their wives -— it’s because they want to. ;~))
Do they figure in all the women who died in childbirth? Guess not.
