# Lifespan and sexual maturity depends on your brain more than your body

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**Created:** [October 31, 2018, 3:49am UTC](https://archive.menshealtharchive.com/t/lifespan-and-sexual-maturity-depends-on-your-brain-more-than-your-body/828 "2018-10-31T03:49:59Z")\
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> **[Lifespan and sexual maturity depends on your brain more than your body: 'Brain...](https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/10/181030150718.htm)**
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> New research finds how long humans and other warm-blooded animals live -- and when they reach sexual maturity -- may have more to do with their brain than their body. More specifically, it is not animals with larger bodies or slower metabolic rates...

  
New research finds how long humans and other warm-blooded animals live – and when they reach sexual maturity – may have more to do with their brain than their body. More specifically, it is not animals with larger bodies or slower metabolic rates that live longer; it is animals with more neurons in the cerebral cortex, whatever the size of the body.