世界各地的长寿人群中,女性总比男性多。那么,常被称为“弱者”的女性,为什么反而活得更长?日前,在里斯本举行的欧洲人类生殖及胚胎学会的年会上,新西兰奥塔哥大学的遗传学家尼尔·基梅尔给出了这个问题的答案。基梅尔认为,从遗传学角度来说,母亲在怀上儿子的那一刻,可能 Of the longevity populations around the world, there are always more women than men. Why, then, women, often referred to as the “weak”, live longer instead? A few days ago, at the annual meeting of the European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology in Lisbon, Neil, a geneticist at Otago University in New Zealand Kimmel gives the answer to this question. Kimmel believes that from a genetic point of view, the moment the mother is pregnant with the son, may