Sex differences in aging occur in many animal species, and they include sex differences in
lifespan, in the onset and progression of age‐associated decline, and in physiological and …

Cancer is a ubiquitous disease of metazoans, predicted to disproportionately affect larger,
long-lived organisms owing to their greater number of cell divisions, and thus increased …

In human populations, women consistently outlive men, which suggests profound biological
foundations for sex differences in survival. Quantifying whether such sex differences are also …

Comparative studies of mortality in the wild are necessary to understand the evolution of
aging; yet, ectothermic tetrapods are underrepresented in this comparative landscape …

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

Understanding how and why menopause has evolved is a long-standing challenge across
disciplines. Females can typically maximize their reproductive success by reproducing for …

DNA methylation‐based biomarkers of ageing (epigenetic clocks) promise to lead to new
insights into evolutionary biology of ageing. Relatively little is known about how the natural …

By analyzing 15,000 samples from 348 mammalian species, we derive DNA methylation
(DNAm) predictors of maximum life span (R= 0.89), gestation time (R= 0.96), and age at …

Senescence patterns are highly variable across the animal kingdom. However, while
empirical evidence of actuarial senescence in vertebrates is accumulating in the wild and …

Temperature is a critical driver of ectotherm life‐history strategies, whereby a warmer
environment is associated with increased growth, reduced longevity and accelerated …