What Evolution Teaches Us

This episode with Michael Rose will look at longevity from an evolutionary perspective.  Michael is an experimental evolutionary biologist who has spent the last several decades running experiments to understand the role that natural selection plays in aging.  He's a distinguished professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UC Irvine, and a great talk at the Ancestral Health Symposium 2018 on Diet, Aging and Evolutionary Mismatch.  You can check it out on the AHS YouTube site.

In today's episode, our discussion touches on fundamental questions, including:  the nature of aging, how evolutionary forces control lifespan, whether aging can stop, the optimal diet and lifestyle for living longer, and how that should be adjusted as you get older.  Michael bases his conclusions on decades of experimental research and hard mathematical analysis.  It's a wide ranging discussion with some surprising solutions.