From Anna Nicole Smith and J. Howard Marshall to Tiger Woods and Elin Nordegren, older men and younger women have been getting together for years. According to a new paper in Biology Letters this week, the age difference gives the couples a reproductive boost.
The authors of the paper, themselves married, looked at a massive database of Swedish couples. In the couples where the age difference was about 5 years, they produced about 5% more children than same age couples. In addition, they analyzed divorces. Divorced men on average chose …