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    Hardship early in life can affect health and longevity — even for marmots

    Hardship early in life can affect health and longevity — even for marmots

    To create the index, doctoral student Xochitl Ortiz-Ross selected data for female marmots born after 2001 -- when the researchers started quantifying physiological stress -- that remained in one of the studied colonies until 2019, to guarantee an accurate record of their pedigree, age and lifetime experiences.