465: Michael Gurven | The Seven-Decade Human Lifespan
About this episode
A conversation with Professor Michael Gurven on the evolutionary structure of human lifespan and misconceptions surrounding aging.
A conversation with Professor Michael Gurven of UC Santa Barbara on the evolutionary structure of human lifespan and the misconceptions surrounding aging. The central claim of Gurven’s work is that humans were not “designed” for short lives that modern medicine has recently extended. Rather, the capacity to live roughly seven decades has long been part […]
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