{"id":88183,"date":"2019-02-26T07:23:59","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T15:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/recently-two-new-studies-published-in-current-biology-explored-the-g-randmothers-effect-on-longevity-children-survival-on-age-and-distance"},"modified":"2019-02-28T12:54:08","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T20:54:08","slug":"recently-two-new-studies-published-in-current-biology-explored-the-g-randmothers-effect-on-longevity-children-survival-on-age-and-distance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/recently-two-new-studies-published-in-current-biology-explored-the-g-randmothers-effect-on-longevity-children-survival-on-age-and-distance","title":{"rendered":"Recently two new studies published in Current Biology explored the grandmothers effect on longevity, children\u2019 survival, on age and distance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/recently-two-new-studies-published-in-current-biology-explored-the-g-randmothers-effect-on-longevity-children-survival-on-age-and-distance.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is a theory that humans\u2019 long life spans and women\u2019s long postreproductive lives, might be connected through the grandmother effect. \u201c\u2026An analysis of church birth and death records in Finland for individuals born between 1731 and 1890 showed that having a maternal grandmother between 50 and 75 years of age while a grandchild was 5 years old or younger increased the child\u2019s survival\u2026 The second study \u2026 it\u2019s not just the existence of a grandmother, but her proximity that matters. The shorter the distance between grandmother and grandchild, the more involved the grandmother can be and the more benefits that accrue to her daughter and grandchildren\u2026\u201d <a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" data-ft=\"{\u201d tn\u201d:\u201d-U\u201d}\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-lynx-mode=\"asynclazy\"><\/a> <a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" data-ft=\"{\u201d tn\u201d:\u201d-U\u201d}\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-lynx-mode=\"asynclazy\"><\/a> <a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" data-ft=\"{\u201d tn\u201d:\u201d-U\u201d}\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-lynx-mode=\"asynclazy\"><\/a> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=394039444494975&amp;id=225552508010337\" data-ft=\"{\u201d tn\u201d:\u201d e\u201d}\"> See More<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/225552508010337\/photos\/a.247788512453403\/394036447828608\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/225552508010337\/photos\/a.247788512453403\/394036447828608\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/225552508010337\/photos\/a.247788512453403\/394036447828608\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/225552508010337\/photos\/a.247788512453403\/394036447828608\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a theory that humans\u2019 long life spans and women\u2019s long postreproductive lives, might be connected through the grandmother effect. \u201c\u2026An analysis of church birth and death records in Finland for individuals born between 1731 and 1890 showed that having a maternal grandmother between 50 and 75 years of age while a grandchild was [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88229,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88183\/revisions\/88229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}