Our understanding of programmed death and its many manifestations such as programmed cell death, programmed organismal death, aging, behavioural suicide, etc. is undergoing a fundamental reappraisal—perhaps even a Thomas Kuhn-like paradigm shift. The realisation over the last few decades that heritable, programmed forms of dying are integral to evolutionary concepts and processes (e.g., the immunological …

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