Your body wasn’t built to last: a lesson from human mortality rates

Re:Your body wasn’t built to last: a lesson from human morta... by jostmey on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @01:41PM (#9415695)

I think I can do better. Michael Rose breed fruit flies selecting for longevity. I believed his work showed that it was possible to extend lifespan simply by introducing the right selective pressure. If this doesn't demonstrate that aging is the result of Evolutionary processes, I don't know what will.

Here's his profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=NCQ3E5sAAAAJ&hl=en...

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Re:Your body wasn’t built to last: a lesson from human morta... by jessriedel on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @02:40PM (#9416053)

No one reasonably disputes that aging is the result of an evolutionary process. But that's a far cry from explaining exactly "why we see super-exponential decay in mortality distributions".

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