Longevity and the barren aristocrat

Daniel E. L. Promislow ()
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Daniel E. L. Promislow: University of Georgia

Nature, 1998, vol. 396, issue 6713, 719-720

Abstract: Experiments with fruitflies have shown that those with fewer offspring generally live longer. Twelve-hundred years of genealogical data from British aristocrats now suggests that this relationship extends to humans.

Date: 1998
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