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Re:Paleontologists Are Trying to Understand Why the Fossil R... by BurningFrog on Friday April 15, 2022 @08:43AM (#31039541)
This can explain why males die younger. It doesn't mean that more males than females die.
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Re:Paleontologists Are Trying to Understand Why the Fossil R... by throwaway0a5e on Friday April 15, 2022 @08:55AM (#31039641)
An animal that makes it to old age to get picked off by whatever predators follow the herd or keel over from disease is going to become food for something else, not a fossil.
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