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He is presently affiliated with MIT as a visiting scholar.\r\n\r\nIn private life, Mitteldorf is an advocate for election integrity as well as\r\npublic health. He is an avid amateur musician, playing piano in chamber groups,\r\nFrench horn in community orchestras. His two daughters are among the first children \r\nadopted from China in the mid-1980s. \r\n\r\nMuch to the surprise of evolutionary biologists, genetic experiments indicate\r\nthat aging has been selected as an adaptation for its own sake. This poses a\r\nconundrum: the impact of aging on individual fitness is wholly negative, so aging\r\nmust be regarded as a kind of evolutionary altruism. Unlike other forms of \r\nevolutionary altruism, aging offers benefits to the community that are weak, and \r\nnot well focussed on near kin of the altruist. This makes the mechanism \r\nchallenging to understand and to model.\r\n\r\nmore at http:\/\/mathforum.org\/~josh","link":"https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/experimentalfrontiers\/author\/joshmitteldorf\/","slug":"joshmitteldorf","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d3a8498f3d727156673030716d233edc57840f110d501b1b523e1780e9043b92?s=24&d=mm&r=g","48":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d3a8498f3d727156673030716d233edc57840f110d501b1b523e1780e9043b92?s=48&d=mm&r=g","96":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d3a8498f3d727156673030716d233edc57840f110d501b1b523e1780e9043b92?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"meta":{"jetpack_donation_warning_dismissed":false},"yoast_head":"\nJosh Mitteldorf, Author at Experimental Frontiers, with Josh Mitteldorf<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/experimentalfrontiers\/author\/joshmitteldorf\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"profile\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Josh Mitteldorf\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/experimentalfrontiers\/author\/joshmitteldorf\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Experimental Frontiers, with Josh Mitteldorf\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f32719c3e54d29e7740ff2b1f5c5332f?s=500&d=mm&r=g\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"ProfilePage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/scienceblog.com\\\/experimentalfrontiers\\\/author\\\/joshmitteldorf\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/scienceblog.com\\\/experimentalfrontiers\\\/author\\\/joshmitteldorf\\\/\",\"name\":\"Josh Mitteldorf, Author at Experimental Frontiers, with Josh Mitteldorf\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/scienceblog.com\\\/experimentalfrontiers\\\/#website\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/scienceblog.com\\\/experimentalfrontiers\\\/author\\\/joshmitteldorf\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/scienceblog.com\\\/experimentalfrontiers\\\/author\\\/joshmitteldorf\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/scienceblog.com\\\/experimentalfrontiers\\\/author\\\/joshmitteldorf\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/scienceblog.com\\\/experimentalfrontiers\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Archives for Josh Mitteldorf\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/scienceblog.com\\\/experimentalfrontiers\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/scienceblog.com\\\/experimentalfrontiers\\\/\",\"name\":\"Experimental Frontiers, with Josh Mitteldorf\",\"description\":\"Experimental Frontiers, with Josh Mitteldorf\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/scienceblog.com\\\/experimentalfrontiers\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/scienceblog.com\\\/experimentalfrontiers\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/214c5d1dad9f15c48f03128d5cfccdb1\",\"name\":\"Josh Mitteldorf\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/d3a8498f3d727156673030716d233edc57840f110d501b1b523e1780e9043b92?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/d3a8498f3d727156673030716d233edc57840f110d501b1b523e1780e9043b92?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/d3a8498f3d727156673030716d233edc57840f110d501b1b523e1780e9043b92?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Josh Mitteldorf\"},\"description\":\"Josh Mitteldorf studies evolutionary theory of aging using computer simulations. 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