{"id":4018,"date":"2007-09-16T18:34:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-16T18:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4018"},"modified":"2017-11-24T15:46:54","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T21:46:54","slug":"fred-thompson-vaults-wall-of-death-fights-mutants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/16\/fred-thompson-vaults-wall-of-death-fights-mutants\/","title":{"rendered":"Fred Thompson Vaults Wall of Death, Fights Mutants"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s kinda dry reading, but this summary<\/a> of a study indicates that older men who procreate are serving the interests of the human race, not themselves:<\/p>\n

Evolutionary theory says that individuals should die of old age when their reproductive lives are complete, generally by age 55 in humans, according to demographer Cedric Puleston, a doctoral candidate in biological sciences at Stanford. But the fatherhood of a small number of older men is enough to postpone the date with death because natural selection fights life-shortening mutations until the species is finished reproducing.<\/p>\n

“Rod Stewart and David Letterman having babies in their 50s and 60s provide no benefit for their personal survival, but the pattern [of reproducing at a later age] has an effect on the population as a whole,” Puleston said. “It’s advantageous to the species if these people stick around. By increasing the survival of men you have a spillover effect on women because men pass their genes to children of both sexes.”<\/p>\n

. . . .<\/center>
\nHuman ability to scale the so-called “wall of death” — surviving beyond the reproductive years — has been a center of scientific controversy for more than 50 years, Puleston said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Only one of our presidential candidates fits that description. Fred Thompson: selflessly vaulting the wall of death to ensure longevity for the children<\/i> and our children’s children<\/i>.<\/p>\n

(Link seen on Dustbury<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s kinda dry reading, but this summary of a study indicates that older men who procreate are serving the interests of the human race, not themselves: Evolutionary theory says that individuals should die of old age when their reproductive lives are complete, generally by age 55 in humans, according to demographer Cedric Puleston, a doctoral […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17831,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4018\/revisions\/17831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}