Being Older and Wiser leads to Evolutionary Success

Here is an article talking about how the fact of iincreased longevity lead to evolutionary success for humans.

Article here: We May Owe it All to Longevity

Dental records provide evidence that modern humans thrived because they were "older and wiser"
By Gabe Romain
Betterhumans Staff
7/5/2004 4:51 PM

Quotes:

"A dramatic increase in longevity that took place during the early Upper Paleolithic Period, around 30,000 BC, could explain humanity's evolutionary success."

"Old age would have also promoted population growth and strengthened social relationships and kinship bonds.

The presence of grandmothers, for example, confers an important evolutionary advantage as they transfer knowledge and other resources to their daughters and their daughters' offspring. "

"The number of people living to older adulthood would have allowed early modern humans to pass down specialized knowledge from one generation to another."