Study reveals average age at conception for men vs. women over past 250k years

Post by cowsandmilk » Mon, Jan 23, 2023, 12:58 PM UTC

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This point was already addressed in the research. It is tiring to see this low effort comments on every research thread, thinking that the researchers are idiots and there is no need to read the article to reject it.

Not everyone subscribes to Science Advances . I can't even get their page to load. Humor us and try to explain your thoughts instead of complaining about the "effort" of the GP, please. The answer to GP's objection is not explained in the linked article, as far as I can tell. The writers of a research paper have a vested interest in seeming smart and displaying their findings as a novel contribution to the greater co…

Post by UncleMeat » Mon, Jan 23, 2023, 12:59 PM UTC

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I watch a lot of old movies (30s-40s-50s). A ton of them have a 40s-50s man marrying a 20s woman. No idea if that was societal norm, mens fantasy, or whatever. I have to kind of believe movie execs would want the largest audience and so if 40s-50s men dating 20s women was not appealing to women of the time they'd been losing 1/2 the market. But, maybe these particular movies were the male equivalent of romance novels…

What world do you live in where 50 year old men don’t want 20 year old wives?

Post by micromacrofoot » Mon, Jan 23, 2023, 1:13 PM UTC

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If a woman bears many children throughout her life, you can still have a situation where the first pregnancy occurs much earlier than today's average yet the overall conception average is roughly same as nowadays.

Even 200 years ago, it was common for women to give birth 10 times. I bet 100k years ago, some women were pregnant yearly, from teenage to menopause.

Post by AdrianB1 » Mon, Jan 23, 2023, 1:17 PM UTC

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A few points, female fertility declines steeply past 40, but males not so much, so older males could conceivably father children with other females. Dare I say it, and this may just be not right, Genghis Khan is purportedly supposed to have fathered thousands of children it is said he had 500 or so secondary wives (citation needed). Since average (mean) income is famously a bit pointless due to a few very rich people…

Post by stephencanon » Mon, Jan 23, 2023, 1:34 PM UTC

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I watch a lot of old movies (30s-40s-50s). A ton of them have a 40s-50s man marrying a 20s woman. No idea if that was societal norm, mens fantasy, or whatever. I have to kind of believe movie execs would want the largest audience and so if 40s-50s men dating 20s women was not appealing to women of the time they'd been losing 1/2 the market. But, maybe these particular movies were the male equivalent of romance novels…

You know this hasn't stopped, ie Tom Cruise is 60 and you won't see him having female partners above 40, that look like 30. Sure he doesn't look his age, be it genes, good lifestyle, laser treatments etc. but he always looks much older than his partners. It happens in real life too - successful older men being with much younger females is normalized by society and a common sight. The opposite not so much though.