Thanks grandma! Human longevity 'down to older females who carried on caring for their offspring's young families'
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Thanks grandma! Human longevity 'down to older females who carried on caring for their offspring's young families'

Dar es Salaam : Tanzania | Oct 23, 2012 at 6:45 PM PDT
Source: Mail Online UK
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23 October 2012 Human longevity is all thanks to our grandmothers' efforts to care for their family, new research suggests. A theory that humans evolved longer adult lifespans than apes because grandmothers helped feed their grandchildren has been proved by a computer simulation of evolution, scientists... FULL ARTICLE AT Mail Online UK
 
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