merovingian | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 18 2009 | Aging, Evolutionary Biology
NYTimes covers the slap fight between evolutionary biologists and medical researchers over why we die.
All parties apparently oblivious to the inherent evolutionary economic disadvantage of longer lifespan in a limited resource environment.
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