Well, a village is a pretty small sample group.
--- On Wed, 5/13/09, Sheldon <humanist.observer at gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Sheldon <humanist.observer at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] the epigenenome
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Wednesday, May 13, 2009, 3:35 PM
> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 11:40 AM,
> Chuck Grimes <cgrimes at rawbw.com>
> wrote:
> > In the program, several researchers studied the
> records of a remote village
> > in Sweden and discovered among other things, that boys
> who lived through
> > famines in their late childhood between about ten and
> thirteen had grandsons
> > who lived longer than average. Meanwhile, girls born
> to mothers during a
> > famine had granddaughters who lived relatively shorter
> lives.
> >
>
> Hmmmm, thats interesting.
>
> Note to self: plan to have a family famine in about ten
> years.
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