Well past age 50, men can still impregnate women of childbearing age. That lengthy period of fertility spurred the evolution of relatively long lives in both sexes, a new study suggests.
In modern hunter-gatherer societies, a substantial number of men in their 60s and 70s continue to father children, say Stanford University biologist Shripad D.
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