![]() ![]() ![]() Eighty per cent of centenarians and 95 per cent of super-centenarians (110 or older) are women. Ha! Well, I started my career working in Alzheimer’s disease, and always wondered why, at the far end of life, there are so few men. When did it first strike you that women are, as you put it, genetically superior to men? As Moalem puts it, at every stage of life, “Genetic females triumph over males.” Evolution, it seems, has singled out one sex to be more resilient than the other. Why? Its (male) author, Canadian physician and scientist Dr Sharon Moalem, says the extra X in every female cell, far from being redundant, is instrumental in ensuring that women have a distinct genetic advantage. Normal text size Larger text size Very large text sizeįar from being the weaker sex, a new book, The Better Half, argues women live longer, have stronger immune systems, fewer developmental disabilities and higher cancer survival rates than men. ![]()
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