06 Jul 2004
Old is young, study finds

Just a clever headline: the study actually concerns the evolutionary advantages conferred by having a grandmother around. Fascinating stuff...

Researchers have discovered a dramatic increase in human longevity that took place during the early Upper Paleolithic Period, around 30,000 B.C. In their study of more than 750 fossils to be published July 5 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, anthropologists found a dramatic increase in longevity among modern humans during that time: the number of people surviving to an older age more than quadrupled.

(link) [Science Blog - Science News Stories]

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