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From: william@lorien.newcastle.ac.uk (William Coyne)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: human lifespan and evolution
Summary: evolving a longer lifespan
Keywords: lifespan evolution
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Date: 28 Oct 90 12:00:50 GMT
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Organization: Chemical & Process Engineering Dept, University of Newcastle, UK.
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Suppose the people in a communtiy delated having chlidren until as late 
in life as possible (but not so late that the population declined because 
of too few births).  
Could this cause the average lifespan to increase by several decades, if
they continued this over tens of generations?
 
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