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Published online 10 July 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news030707-8

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Scientists, like criminals, peak at 30

Study hints that men strive to win women and then sit back.

Male scientists are like criminals, a new study concludes1. Their productivity peaks at 30 and then goes rapidly downhill.

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