Introduction

This program will bring experimental techniques, biological systems, demographic concepts, statistical methods, and theoretical models to bear on questions concerning the determinants of life span in both humans and in non-human model systems including both vertebrates and invertebrates.

The five research projects that form the program are organized around the following cross-cutting themes:

• Life span is adaptive and shaped by nature
• Individuals age in the wild;
• Sociality and life span are mutually affecting and;
• Super arching principles provide all-embracing order to variation in animal life spans.

Program Funding

• The Biodemography Determinants of Life Span is funded by the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Aging, under PO1 program Grant Grant Number PO1-AG022500.

Auspices Statement

• All publications which report on work supported by this grant(in part or in full) MUST contain the following auspices statement: "This work has been supported by funding from the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Aging. The Biodemographic Detrminants of Life Span is a PO1 program, managed by the University of California, Davis.