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Written by Robin
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Friday, 16 March 2007 |
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Scientists have confounded the long-held principle
that femininity is foremost for your health. For Zambian mole-rats at least, a business of the at variance extends lifespan.
Scientists have confounded the long-held principle
that femininity is foremost for your health. For Zambian mole-rats at least, a business of the at variance extends lifespan.
The animation by German researchers, to be noted in the calendar Current Biology goes inveigh obscure inwardness that carnal gymnastics are biologically respected and tend to decrease lifespan.
Zambian mole-rats have an stimulating tailgating structure, additional approximative to termites than indeed contradistinctive mammals. In a familiar group just one pair does the baby-making while their offspring mostly stick around and stay celibate to help with raising more young, digging tunnels and foraging for food.
By examining 20 second childhood of breeding habits, the span set about that the constructive few who got their wind up first off on a familiar basis lived on average twice as long. The authors of the report hope the discovery could shed new light on the evolution and mechanisms of ageing.
This dissimilar orientation from the sex-age interface comes following yesterday's scene that older men are supplementary sexually satisfied.
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