Women live longer than men - except when males don't play the field, suggests a new study. Females tend to have greater longevity among species with strong competition for mates – as is the case with ...

What if menopause wasn’t the end of fertility but the beginning of a more critical role for women? According to historian and professor Roy Casagranda, evolution didn’t just allow women to live longer ...

An international team of researchers led by scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, working with 15 collaborators around the world, has conducted the most ...

We now have a better idea of why women live longer than men, on average, thanks to the most comprehensive analysis yet of the differences in lifespan between male and female mammals and birds. The ...