The Evolution of Aging, the Great Transition, and the Increasing Risk of Chronic Disease

The Evolution of Aging, the Great Transition, and the Increasing Risk of Chronic Disease

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Thus the life history theory of lifespan

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Thus the life history theory of lifespan

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The Evolution of Aging, the Great Transition, and the Increasing Risk of Chronic Disease

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  1. 1 Intro
  2. 2 Acknowledgements
  3. 3 Plan of the talk
  4. 4 The Great Transition is doing at least 3 big things
  5. 5 How an evolutionary geneticist thinks about aging
  6. 6 Selection on lifespan
  7. 7 Thus the life history theory of lifespan
  8. 8 The HAM-LAM Experiment
  9. 9 The Mortality Assay Did lifespan evolve?
  10. 10 Which organisms must age?
  11. 11 Symmetrically reproducing organisms should not age
  12. 12 A deep implication
  13. 13 The Great Transition: the industrial revolution plus the demographic and epidemiological transitions
  14. 14 As mortality and fertility decline and life expectancy increases ...
  15. 15 the driver of selection shifts from mortality to fertility me recent demographie history of England
  16. 16 This transition impacts ongoing human evolution
  17. 17 The tension between biology and culture is increasing
  18. 18 Increased lifespan exposes antagonistic pleiotropy
  19. 19 Breast Cancer
  20. 20 Cancer in General
  21. 21 Alzheimer's and Cardiovascular disease
  22. 22 Coronary Artery Disease
  23. 23 Could we evolve to live longer?

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