{"id":9987,"date":"2007-10-13T14:45:49","date_gmt":"2007-10-13T20:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=9987"},"modified":"2007-10-13T14:45:49","modified_gmt":"2007-10-13T20:45:49","slug":"the-trouble-with-sciam-dan-collins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=9987","title":{"rendered":"The Trouble with SciAm [Dan Collins]"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciam.com\/print_version.cfm?articleID=FAEB4508-E7F2-99DF-329AA2F69CCB6D5C\">The Trouble with Men<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Deadbeat granddads, life-shortening sons and genetically bullying brothers\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u009dthese are just a few effects revealed in biologist Virpi Lummaa&#8217;s studies of how evolutionary forces shape later generations<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A selection:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sons are tough on their mothers. Whether it is heavier birth weights, amplified testosterone levels or simple, hair-raising high jinks, boys seem to take an extra toll on the women who gave birth to them. And by poring over Finnish church records from two centuries ago, Virpi Lummaa of the University of Sheffield in England can prove it: sons reduce a mother\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s life span by an average of 34 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old Finnish evolutionary biologist, aided by genealogists, has scoured centuries-old tomes (and decades-old microfiche) for birth, marriage and death records\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u009dand clues about the influence of evolution on human reproduction. Historians, economists and even sociologists have long used such tactics to explore their fields, but Lummaa <strong>is among the first biologists to enlist Homo sapiens as an animal whose population can be followed over time<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The empasized part is not true.  As for the rest, it&#8217;s interesting, but . . . I wonder if having daughters reduces the life-expectancy of men?  If you didn&#8217;t have sons to help you in the fields, would it have made things harder on you?  If you had to come up with dowries?  Would having relatively more daughters have meant that women had extra help with their work?  Would that have made life less tough on them?<\/p>\n<p>Besides, our moms have been telling us this all our lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trouble with Men Deadbeat granddads, life-shortening sons and genetically bullying brothers\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u009dthese are just a few effects revealed in biologist Virpi Lummaa&#8217;s studies of how evolutionary forces shape later generations A selection: Sons are tough on their mothers. Whether it is heavier birth weights, amplified testosterone levels or simple, hair-raising high jinks, boys seem to take an extra toll on the women who gave birth to them. And by poring<\/p>\n<div class=\"belowpost\"><a class=\"btnmore\" href=\"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=9987\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":587,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/587"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}