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</strong><br><blockquote class="mori" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:2px blue solid;padding-left:1ex;">Yes, it is controversial. All they have is very neat computer<br>simulations matching ageing to resources.<br><br>But as the article points out, there are problems with the two other<br>theories of why humans age.<br>The “mutation accumulation” theory, where the repair mechanism wears<br>out and the “antagonistic pleiotropy” theory, where traits that are<br>beneficial in early life are detrimental in later life.<br></blockquote></div><br>Yes, but neither are the leading theory of ageing! The disposable soma theory seems to be the mainstream one. It encompasses limited mutation correction and antagonistic pleiotropy, but goes beyond them. <br><br><br>Anders Sandberg,
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