Many ways to die: unveiling the hidden diversity in ageing. This project aims to investigate how organ failure during ageing leads to cause of death, and why individuals die of different causes. Under

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Many ways to die: unveiling the hidden diversity in ageing. This project aims to investigate how organ failure during ageing leads to cause of death, and why individuals die of different causes. Understanding how an individual’s genetic make-up interacts with influences from the environment, like diet, to alter the ultimate cause of death is lacking, but is crucial for advancing knowledge of why animals age and designing strategies to ameliorate health decline during aging. This project aims to expand ageing theory to include individual and environmental variation in cause of death. Benefits include enhanced understanding of the evolution of ageing and long-term improvements for the development of healthy ageing interventions.. Scheme: Discovery Projects. Field: 3104 - Evolutionary Biology. Lead: A/Prof Christen Mirth