Evolution is rarely so tidy in its convergence. Humans have vestigial organs and crazy anatomical features left over from our ancestors. In light of that it wou

Evolution is rarely so tidy in its convergence. Humans have vestigial organs and crazy anatomical features left over from our ancestors. In light of that it would be a rather stunning coincidence to find that when it comes to aging across species (!) that organisms seem to have all their systems age at the same rate simply by individual evolution of each of those systems or that all the systems are effectively immortal with nothing in-between. Without a coherent theory of senescence this is all conjecture, but there's compelling evidence that there's some set of hidden variables we aren't seeing that is "pulling the strings" when it comes to aging.