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Universiteit Utrecht , Universiteit Leiden, Faculteit der Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen, Centrum voor Milieuwetenschappen, Afdeling Environmental Biology (CML-EB) , Universiteit Utrecht, Faculteit Bètawetenschappen, Departement Biologie , Universiteit van Amsterdam , Universiteit van Amsterdam, Faculteit der Natuurwetenschappen, Wiskunde en Informatica (Faculty of Science), Instituut voor Biodiversiteit en Ecosysteem Dynamica - IBED , Universiteit Utrecht, Faculteit Bètawetenschappen, Departement Biologie, Theoretische Biologie en Bioinformatica , University of Jyväskylä , University of Jyväskylä
Animals that live in social colonies are known to age much slower than non-social animals. For example, naked mole rats are small rodents that hardly suffer from ageing and live in social colonies. Are these social species more likely to become long-lived, or are long-lived species more likely to become social? Analogously to how individuals cooperate to form breeding colonies in social species, at some point individual cells started cooperating to form multicellular organisms (like humans!). Did the evolution of cellular cooperation change the ageing rates of our cells when multicellularity evolved?
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