Why do women live longer than men?

(University of Alabama at Birmingham) Women live longer than men. This simple statement holds a tantalizing riddle that Steven Austad, Ph.D., and Kathleen Fischer, Ph.D., of the University of Alabama at Birmingham explore in a perspective piece published in Cell Metabolism on June 14. 'Humans are the only species in which one sex is known to have a ubiquitous survival advantage,' the researchers write in their research review covering a multitude of species.