Living in social groups could influence the evolution of senescence and longevity by
affecting key life‐history parameters such as extrinsic mortality and the cost of reproduction …

Discerning the relationship between sociality and longevity would permit a deeper
understanding of how animal life history evolved. Here, we perform a phylogenetic …

The evolutionary theory of senescence underpins research in life history evolution and the
biology of aging. In 1957 GC Williams predicted that higher adult death rates select for …

Senescence—the decline in age‐specific contribution to fitness with increasing age—has
been widely investigated in evolutionary ecology. A tremendous amount of detailed …

Individual lifespans vary tremendously between and also within species, but the proximate
and ultimate causes of different ageing speeds are still not well understood. Sociality …

In many species, animals live in highly structured groups. In these groups, individual
differences in the number and identity of social contacts (alters) of each ego define the social …

Long life is a typical feature of individuals living in cooperative societies. One explanation is
that group living lowers mortality, which selects for longer life. Alternatively, long life may …

The naked mole-rat (NMR) is a subterranean rodent that has gained significant attention
from the biomedical research community in recent years as molecular mechanisms …

Animal lifespan is determined by extrinsic and intrinsic factors causing mortality. According
to the evolutionary theories of senescence, when mortality pressures are low, animals delay …

The blind subterranean mole rat Spalax shows a remarkable tolerance to hypoxia, cancer-
resistance and longevity. Unravelling the genomic basis of these adaptations will be …