This is far from the only study to indicate that the children of long-lived individuals tend also to be long-lived. The open question is the degree to which this is genetic versus cultural transmission. The construction of very large population databases over the past few decades has produced evidence for genetics to play only a small role in life expectancy for the vast majority of people. Similarly the weight of evidence for lifestyle choice, …
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