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Dads older than mums since dawn of humanity, study suggests

Scientists used modern human DNA to estimate when new generations were born over 250,000 years — and the age of parents at conception.
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Men have consistently had children later in life than women throughout human history, suggests a study. The research used genetic mutations in modern human DNA to create a timeline of when people have tended to conceive children over the past 250,000 years1, since our species first emerged. The timeline suggests that men have, on average, conceived children around seven years later than women.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-00076-3

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