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Evolutionary Biology
Longevity evolved late for humans
July 30th, 2004
Researchers at the University of Michigan and the University of California at Riverside have discovered a dramatic increase in human longevity that took place during the early Upper Paleolithic Period, around 30,000 BC. In their study of more than 750 fossils published July 5, 2004, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, anthropologists Rachel Caspari and Sang-Hee Lee found a dramatic increase in longevity among modern humans during that time: The number of people surviving to an older age more than quadrupled. Caspari, an assistant research scientist at the U-M Anthropology Museum, said this increase in the number of relatively...
Source: Genomics & Genetics Weekly (2004-07-30)
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