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LaminatorX
on Friday February 21 2014, @03:00AM
from the totally-getting-snipped-for-my-birthday-this-year dept.
from the totally-getting-snipped-for-my-birthday-this-year dept.
robingHood writes:
"New Scientist Magazine reports on findings that suggest that delaying fatherhood may increase the risk of fathering children with disorders such as Apert syndrome, Autism and Schizophrenia. The article reports that 'although there is a big increase in risk for many disorders, it's a big increase in a very small risk. A 40-year-old is about 50 per cent more likely to father an autistic child than a 20-year-old is, for instance, but the overall risk is only about 1 per cent to start with.' In other words: time to start mating before those tadpoles turn into toads."
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 21 2014, @04:54AM
i think it is rather an evolutionary artifact. our average life expectancy runs past our evolutionary grooming. if teenage moms were the norm, there would be no way to select for/against a disease that occurred when someone was in their 40s.