timtyler comments on Does evolution select for mortality? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 24 February 2013 05:12:30PM *  3 points [-]

That's true. However the antagonistic pleiotropy and disposable soma theories have senescence as the product of selection. Basically, all the theories are bad news for anyone hoping that aging and death will somehow go away. Fighting aging is fighting against the natural tendencies of systems to age and die.