Instruct: Identify the main and secondary category of Arxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: Senescence, change, and competition: when the desire to pick one model
  harms our understanding   The question of why we age is a fundamental one. It is about who we are, and
it also might have critical practical aspects as we try to find ways to age
slower. Or to not age at all. Different reasons point at distinct strategies
for the research of anti-ageing drugs. While the main reason why biological
systems work as they do is evolution, for quite a while, it was believed that
aging required another explanation. Aging seems to harm individuals so much
that even if it has group benefits, those benefits were unlikely to be enough.
That has led many scientists to propose non-evolutionary explanations as to why
we age. But those theories seem to fail at explaining all the data on how
species age. Here, I will show that the insistence of finding the one idea that
explains it all might be at the root of the difficulty of getting a full
picture. By exploring an evolutionary model of aging where locality and
temporal changes are fundamental aspects of the problem, I will show that
environmental change causes the barrier for group advantages to become much
weaker. That weakening might help small group advantages to add up to the point
they could make an adaptive difference. To answer why we age, we might have to
abandon asking which models are correct. The full answer might come from
considering how much each hypothesis behind each existing model, evolutionary
and non-evolutionary ones, contributes to the real world's solution.

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The categories of this paper are: chem-ph
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The categories of this paper are: adap-org
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The categories of this paper are: chao-dyn
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The categories of this paper are: nucl-ex
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The categories of this paper are: math
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The categories of this paper are: nucl-th
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The categories of this paper are: alg-geom
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The categories of this paper are: math-ph
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The categories of this paper are: astro-ph
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The categories of this paper are: hep-ex
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The categories of this paper are: hep-ph
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The categories of this paper are: comp-gas
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The categories of this paper are: stat
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The categories of this paper are: bayes-an
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The categories of this paper are: q-fin
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The categories of this paper are: hep-lat