Yeah, the low extrinsic mortality is definitely something NMR have going for them that ant workers don’t (queens do since they don’t leave the nest usually). Indian jumping ants also compete for being queen like NMRs, but they forage and leave the nest. There are definitely academics that think in detail what differences in extrinsic mortality risk predict for life-span. When I just asked Claude on that it apparently is actually more complicated than lower extrinsic mortality=slower rate of senescence? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Similarly, I am not sure if the low oxygen environment is actually that great for NMR longevity. As ChristianKi mentions your theory is going to be more interesting if you can look across species what it would predict or what your evolutionary theory predicts regarding mechanistic/biochemistry and genetic stuff in NMRs. As ChristianKi, I would not call myself an expert, but I might be somewhere on the Pareto frontier of having looked into aging, eusocial animals and naked mole rats. Not sure about relevant experts. Maybe check the people who wrote the textbook on naked mole rats? You would need some generalist that would know enough about these senescence models and about particular biology of naked mole rats and this expert might just not exist in 1 person.
Yeah, the low extrinsic mortality is definitely something NMR have going for them that ant workers don’t (queens do since they don’t leave the nest usually). Indian jumping ants also compete for being queen like NMRs, but they forage and leave the nest. There are definitely academics that think in detail what differences in extrinsic mortality risk predict for life-span. When I just asked Claude on that it apparently is actually more complicated than lower extrinsic mortality=slower rate of senescence? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Similarly, I am not sure if the low oxygen environment is actually that great for NMR longevity. As ChristianKi mentions your theory is going to be more interesting if you can look across species what it would predict or what your evolutionary theory predicts regarding mechanistic/biochemistry and genetic stuff in NMRs. As ChristianKi, I would not call myself an expert, but I might be somewhere on the Pareto frontier of having looked into aging, eusocial animals and naked mole rats. Not sure about relevant experts. Maybe check the people who wrote the textbook on naked mole rats? You would need some generalist that would know enough about these senescence models and about particular biology of naked mole rats and this expert might just not exist in 1 person.