The long lives of primates and the 'invariant rate of ageing' hypothesis.

Colchero, FORCID logo; Aburto, JMORCID logo; Archie, EA; Boesch, CORCID logo; Breuer, T; Campos, FAORCID logo; Collins, A; Conde, DAORCID logo; Cords, MORCID logo; Crockford, C; +30 more...Thompson, MEORCID logo; Fedigan, LM; Fichtel, CORCID logo; Groenenberg, M; Hobaiter, C; Kappeler, PMORCID logo; Lawler, RR; Lewis, RJ; Machanda, ZP; Manguette, ML; Muller, MN; Packer, CORCID logo; Parnell, RJ; Perry, S; Pusey, AEORCID logo; Robbins, MM; Seyfarth, RM; Silk, JB; Staerk, JORCID logo; Stoinski, TS; Stokes, EJ; Strier, KBORCID logo; Strum, SC; Tung, JORCID logo; Villavicencio, FORCID logo; Wittig, RMORCID logo; Wrangham, RW; Zuberbühler, K; Vaupel, JW; Alberts, SCORCID logo and (2021) The long lives of primates and the 'invariant rate of ageing' hypothesis. Nature Communications, 12 (1). 3666-. ISSN 2041-1723 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-23894-3
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Is it possible to slow the rate of ageing, or do biological constraints limit its plasticity? We test the 'invariant rate of ageing' hypothesis, which posits that the rate of ageing is relatively fixed within species, with a collection of 39 human and nonhuman primate datasets across seven genera. We first recapitulate, in nonhuman primates, the highly regular relationship between life expectancy and lifespan equality seen in humans. We next demonstrate that variation in the rate of ageing within genera is orders of magnitude smaller than variation in pre-adult and age-independent mortality. Finally, we demonstrate that changes in the rate of ageing, but not other mortality parameters, produce striking, species-atypical changes in mortality patterns. Our results support the invariant rate of ageing hypothesis, implying biological constraints on how much the human rate of ageing can be slowed.


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