An animal's behaviour can influence many variables, such as its energy reserves, its risk of
injury or mortality, and its rate of reproduction. To identify the optimal action in a given …

Aging is an evolutionary paradox. Several hypotheses have been proposed to explain it, but
none fully explains all the biochemical and ecologic data accumulated over decades of …

Aging clocks have provided one of the most important recent breakthroughs in the biology of
aging, and may provide indicators for the effectiveness of interventions in the aging process …

Aging clocks have provided one of the most significant recent breakthroughs in the biology
of aging. Such clocks allow the determination of chronological and increasingly also …

As part of a comparative research agenda that promises insights that help extend the human
lifespan and combat cancer, cancer prevalence in zoo animals has received recent …

The most important manifestation of aging is an increased risk of death with advancing age,
a mortality pattern characterized by empirical regularities known as mortality laws. We …

Lidsky and Andino claim the pathogen control hypothesis (PCH) has more explanatory
power than current theories on the evolution of ageing [1]. The PCH, based on kin selection …

Background: Evolutionary medicine builds on evolutionary biology and explains why natural
selection has left us vulnerable to disease. Unfortunately, several misunderstandings exist in …

DNA methylation marks have recently been used to build models known as “epigenetic
clocks” which predict calendar age. As methylation of cytosine promotes C-to-T mutations …

The pathogen control evolutionary hypothesis (PCH) of aging was critically analyzed by
Criscuolo et al.[1]. According to PCH, a shorter lifespan might have evolved to eliminate …