Interesting finding. (HT: Ray Sawhill)
Delaying fatherhood may offer survival advantages, say US scientists who have found children with older fathers and grandfathers appear to be “genetically programmed” to live longer.
The genetic make-up of sperm changes as a man ages and develops DNA code that favours a longer life – a trait he then passes to his children.
The team found the link after analysing the DNA of 1,779 young adults.
Their work appears in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
So science corroborates what we already know; that a young man does well to achieve some maturity and get himself established in career, while a young woman does well to marry young while she’s at her most fertile.
