• Perditija@feddit.de
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    10 months ago

    I want to throw in the following explanations I read (I haven’t fact checked them but find them interesting for this post). Women are statistically smaller than men and smaller individuals of a species live longer than larger ones. Men on average have faster metabolisms than women which is said to contribute to faster aging as well.

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      10 months ago

      The obvious explanation for the life expectancy differential is that girls are more likely to catch a toilet-seat borne disease.