Aging is a Group-Selected Adaptation: Theory, Evidence, and Medical ImplicationsAlthough books exist on the evolution of aging, this is the first book written from the perspective of again as an adaptive program. It offers an insight into the implications of research on aging genetics, The author proposes the Demographic Theory of Senescence, whereby aging has been affirmatively selected because it levels the death rate over time helping stabilize population dynamics and prevent extinctions. |
Contents
The Diverse Demography of Aging | |
Aging is not Caused by Accumulated Damage | |
Three Prevailing Theories and their Failings | |
Aging is Very | |
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Aging Is a Group-Selected Adaptation: Theory, Evidence, and Medical Implications JOSHUA. MITTELDORF No preview available - 2021 |
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adaptation animals Antagonistic Pleiotropy apoptosis behavior benefit Biol biologists biology birds body body’s Caenorhabditis elegans caloric restriction cancer cellular senescence century Chapter chromosome classical conjugation cost curve damage death rate demographic disease Disposable Soma diversity ecology ecosystem effect eggs elegans energy environment epigenetic evidence evolution of aging evolutionary theory evolved experiment extend lifespan extinction female fertility flies food energy function genome group selection growth higher homeostasis hormesis humans hypothesis increase individual selection live longer mammals mechanism Medawar metabolism mice mitochondria mitochondrial Mitteldorf mortality mutations natural selection neo-Darwinian neo-Darwinism offspring old age organisms oxidative population dynamics population genetics post-reproductive predators prediction prey programmed death protists regeneration repair replicative reproduction result Science scientists semelparous short telomeres signaling span species stability stem cells survive telomerase telomere telomere length theories of aging theorists tradeoffs trait Vaupel wild worms yeast