Showing posts with label life expectation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label life expectation. Show all posts

Thursday, October 16, 2014

Life expectancy and happiness

First, the news.
Headline: For sheep horns, biggest is not better
Text: Sometimes it pays to be mediocre. A new study shows that sheep with a 50/50 blend of genes for small and big horns pass along more of their genes than their purely big-horned brethren, who mate more often... The results, published online August 21 in Nature, reveal that while biggerhorned sheep mated most successfully
each season, small-horned sheep survived longer... and mated more successfully than those with the smallest horns.
My comment: