Survival data for: Phylogenetic reconstruction of ancestral aging rates in the primate lineage

Median lifespans of primates show nearly 10-fold variation, ranging from ∼8 years in marmosets to ∼80 years in humans. The molecular mechanisms that govern this variation and how they evolved remain poorly understood. In this study, we implemented a novel phylogenetic Gompertzian survival framework to leverage the evolutionary history of primates in order to estimate parameters of aging for 38 captive primate species. We find that baseline hazards (at the time of sexual maturity) and adult aging rates display significant variation, and aging rates are more evolutionarily conserved than baseline hazards (Pagel lambda=0.96 vs lambda=0.34, respectively). Furthermore, we find that aging rates and baseline hazards do not show a pattern of phylogenetic covariation, suggesting that differential evolutionary pressures may act on these traits. Aging rates were strongly correlated with body weights, with a notable exception within the Ape family, where aging rates remained approximately unchanged..., , # Survival data for: Phylogenetic reconstruction of ancestral aging rates in the primate lineage Dataset DOI: [10.5061/dryad.m905qfvd5](10.5061/dryad.m905qfvd5) ## Description of the data and file structure File: primate_life_tables.tsv - contains adult mortality rates (post sexual maturity) for primates in captivity across multiple primate centers and zoos, aggregated at 1-year intervals. This file is generated using as a part of data analysis pipeline. The hazard of mortality (qx) for the time interval (t to t+dt) is estimated as the number of death events during the time interval divided by the effective number of individuals at risk: qx = Ndied/Nrisk Where Nrisk = Nalive + 0.5 * Ncensored is the average number of survivors at the midpoint of the time interval[17]. We used a two-year interval to obtain a sufficiently large number of death events for species with small populations. Code/software Codebase: [https://github.com/eugenemel/PrimateAgingCodebase/](https://github.c..., ,