@e0c06ded @f740824b Yes, but men and women are just minor permutations of a common, shared genome—we're the same species, after all! So selection for longevity in one sex will spill over to the other. 

 @0c1a9324 @e0c06ded Yes. And what is the big picture, what is nature's agenda? Can it have one? It seems to. 

 @0c1a9324 @e0c06ded And longevity is never immortality.