A cultural obsession with youth, vitality and beauty can leave those whose years are steadily advancing with a nagging fear that they are destined for life's scrapheap.
As love handles sprout, skin starts to sag and youngsters leave the nest, the middle-aged can hardly be blamed for the feeling that they are starting to be left behind.
But it is now claimed that, far from simply living a long, slow decline, they are actually standing at the peak of human evolution, in a pivotal role that is crucial to our species.
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