Longevity evolution · Evolution of longevity and senescence in long-lived Asian elephants and humans
7РП — „Хора“ (Действия „Мария Кюри“)
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Накратко на български
Еволюцията на дълголетието се проучва чрез сравнение между хората и азиатските слонове, които живеят дълго и в социални групи. Това помага да се разбере защо някои видове продължават да живеят дълго след края на репродуктивния си период.
Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.
Цел на проекта
Ageing is a central concept in biology and has implications for humanities, social sciences and public health. A few mammals with extremelongevity, including human women, represent a striking exception to general pattern, ceasing reproduction at age 50 and having a longpost-reproductive lifespan, thus posing the question of whether and why long post-reproductive lifespan in such species has been undernatural selection. I am applying to establish a new innovative project to investigate the evolution of extreme longevity in mammals, bycombining my previous extensive expertise on longevity and senescence in humans with data on an another long-lived mammal withsimilar life-history, the Asian elephant (Elephas maximus). Asian elephants have long lifespan (maximum of 80 years), live in social groupscontaining many generations and thus would make a fascinating comparison to humans and the patterns of longevity evolution in animalsin general. My proposed approach is novel, the dataset used unique, and the results are likely to be highly interesting both across differentdisciplines of science as well as to the public. I am applying to conduct this study at the top-biological science Dept. in UK (as ranked innational survey 2009 based on the quality of research), Animal and Plant Sciences (APS) of the University of Sheffield. Working inSheffield would allow me: to test my previous findings on humans with new avenues on elephants thus widening my personal researchspectrum; continue working on topics and systems that attract lots of media interest in the positive sense; enable further internationalfunding opportunities from inter-disciplinary sources; likely lead to high-impact publications; highly interest students both at theundergraduate and postgraduate level. I believe that my career would greatly benefit from gaining an opportunity to work with topinternational researchers in my field in Sheffield.
Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).
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