More Kids, Longer Life?

julie@theatlantic.com, The Atlantic: Health
Tue, 01/12/2016 - 11:07am

Jenny Elia Pfeiffer / Corbis Growing a human being inside you for nine months, and then expelling it with a force that can fracture your pelvis can take its toll on the body. (So can, you know, raising it.) According to a branch of evolutionary biology called life-history theory, there should be a tradeoff for all this effort—namely, that having kids should speed up the aging process.

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