До свидания, девочки
Oct. 25th, 2010 12:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aptsvetБританские ученые (услыхал по BBC, ссылки не нашел) установили, что мужчины генетически запрограммированы на более короткую жизнь, чем женщины.
Так что увы. Не забывайте поливать цветы и кормить рыбок.
Так что увы. Не забывайте поливать цветы и кормить рыбок.
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Date: 2010-10-25 04:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-25 04:50 pm (UTC)http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3052169.stm
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Date: 2010-10-25 04:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-25 06:06 pm (UTC)Women have a natural genetic advantage over men which allows them to live longer, scientists have shown. И т.п.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/695006.stm
Видимо, британские ученые пришли к тому же выводу десять лет спустя.
До свидания, девочки.
Date: 2010-10-25 05:09 pm (UTC)Re: До свидания, девочки.
Date: 2010-10-25 05:10 pm (UTC)Re: До свидания, девочки.
Date: 2010-10-25 05:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-25 05:17 pm (UTC)http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=why-women-live-longer
This gap is the straight consequence of the disposable soma theory of programmed death. The theory is not new, it is from the early 1970s. It was discovered in the 1960s that castration of men increases their life span by about 14 years. http://geronj.oxfordjournals.org/content/24/4/395.extract
There was also a theory dating from about the same time that a higher (20%) level of active testosterone in young blacks is the main cause of the reduced longevity in the Afro-Americans, be it health or other problems (as it increases aggression). The theory was that sub-Saharan society was strongly polygynous and reproductive success crucially depended on very high levels if testosterone at early age (this level drops very signiciantly after the age of 24). This strategy is anticipated by Rushton's r/K theory of racial differences (different reproductive strategies in response to the high parasitic load).
So a lot of people get a worse deal than we do. On the positive side, if one wants to live longer, there is a way.
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Date: 2010-10-25 06:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-25 06:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-25 07:30 pm (UTC)There are other things that increase longevity, rather counter-intuitively. For example, blindness - or living mostly in the dark. It causes atrophy of the pineal gland, slowing the rate of tumor growth (in rodents). There are eusocial rodents called naked mole rats. They can live seven times longer than other rodents and do not develop cancers. Check http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2009/10/26-02.html
Here you have darkness, sterility, no concerns about domination, low predation, stable environment, low-fat diet -- all of the goodies. The reward is long, eventful life in the filth of a communal nest. Nature shows the way.
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Date: 2010-10-25 08:43 pm (UTC)though apparently too late for castration, blindness is still a considerable option!
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Date: 2010-10-25 10:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-25 05:48 pm (UTC):-)
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Date: 2010-10-25 05:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-25 06:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-25 05:49 pm (UTC)Meanwhile enjoy the ride to the fullest :)
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Date: 2010-10-25 06:48 pm (UTC)you wish
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