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Questions post for Feb 8 live stream for Simulating the Evolution of Aging
🕑 Added 2025-02-01 17:26:43 +0000 UTCHello!
We'll be doing a livestream to dive more deeply into the evolution of aging.
It's scheduled for next Saturday, February 8th, at 10 am Central (US). It will be an unlisted stream on YouTube, and I'll make another Patreon post with the link just before the stream. If you're not able to make it, the video will be available to watch afterward at the same link.
The agenda for that stream will be driven by your questions, so this post is meant to collect those questions. You can also ask questions live. But if you ask them here, I'll have more opportunity to prepare answers, perhaps including simulations that we can run live. I'm also happy to answer questions about the software and video making process, or anything else, but I'll prioritize questions focused on aging.
Looking forward to it!
Comments
Primer
I'll plan to talk about it. The basic answer is probably not, since that's selection at the group level in a group that doesn't really cooperate let alone have any enforcement mechanisms for that cooperation the way a body does.
Corbin H
If I understand, your simulations suggest that aging is primarily due to the inability for natural selection to fully suppress deleterious mutations. Do you think there might be ways in which natural selection actively promotes aging? For example, cellular senescence seems to protect against cancer, by inhibiting unchecked growth at the cellular level. Do you think aging could play a similar role on a population level to check bad actors?
TheCalGuy
I’m assuming you’ll talk about this anyway, but just in case you weren’t planning on it, was the mutant death allele dominant or recessive? I think I know, but I’d like to see you give your explanation.
