Evolutionary BiologyProceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological SciencesPeer-reviewed
Older fathers’ children have lower evolutionary fitness across four centuries and in four populations
Ruben C. Arslan, Kai P. Willführ, Emma Frans…·Lars Penke
The paper shows that older fathers' children have lower fitness, with fewer surviving children across four populations and centuries, likely due to de novo mutations.
DOI 10.1098/rspb.2017.1562