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Thursday , June 18, 1998
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Study: male caregivers live longer
Among humans and other primates, lifespans
of males and females more equal when he
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Continued from page 14A
back to 1780. For the animals,
they examined the life history of
up to 1,500 animals in each
species.
The pattern that emerged, said
Alhnan, is that among primates
that closely shared the care of off
spring, the male-female lifespans
also were nearly the same. But in
species in which males took
almost no part in child-rearing,
the females outUve the males by a
wide margin.
For instance, in chimpanzees,
where the male has almost no
role in raising the young, there
are about three times more
females than males in the adult
population.
Among mountain gorillas,
where fathers will protect and
play with their yormg, females
have only a shght survival advan
tage.
Allman said that among
humans, based on the 200 years
of Swedish data, the women tend
to live 5 percent to 8 percent
longer than the men.
Among two primates, the owl
monkey and titi monkey, fathers
cany their young from shortly
after birth, except for brief peri
ods of nursing. AUman said that
titi monkey males actually tend
ed to outlive the females and hfes-
pan was about the same among
the genders of the owl monkeys.
Allman said that among some
new world monkeys, such as the
marmoset, males appear to high
ly prize the young and up to four
males may share parenting
duties.
“There have been reports that
some fathers will actually steal
the children of others,” said
Alhnan.
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