Good for the goose, not so great for the gander

A provocative new model proposed by molecular biologist John Tower of the University of Southern California may help answer an enduring scientific question: Why do women tend to live longer than men? That tendency holds true in humans and many other mammals as well as in the much-studied fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster.

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