📹 Essay: Why We Age

The ongoing war in your body

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For the general information on information theory of aging see. Lifespan: Why We Age―and Why We Don't Have to by David A. Sinclair, in particular see the second chapter.

“From the ancients to the pre-industrial society (<1850), there is a rough consensus that global life expectancy at birth is just a paltry 30-35 years.” See Our World in Data Entry on Life Expectancy.

For all data on life expectancy at birth including data on Madagascar See The World Bank Life Expectancy Databank.

For the data cited on child mortality, see Our World in Data entries on Mortality in the past: every second child died, and Child and Infant Mortality.

For more technical treatment of Information Theory of Aging see the following papers:

Biophysics, 2017, Vol. 62, No. 5, pp. 829–835.

Curr Genomics. 2017 Oct; 18(5): 385–407.