Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Research Suggests Polygamous Men Live Longer

Posted by timothy on from the depends-which-part-of-utah dept.

Calopteryx writes "Want to live a little longer? Get a second wife. A study reported in New Scientist suggests that men from polygamous cultures outlive those from monogamous ones. After accounting for socioeconomic differences, men aged over 60 from 140 countries that practice polygamy to varying degrees lived on average 12% longer than men from 49 mostly monogamous nations."

1 of 483 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Related to an old joke by smittyoneeach · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Oh God, here come the HR jokes...

    --
    Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear