Michael Rose is a Distinguished Professor of Biology at the University of California, Irvine. He has been studying the biology of aging since 1976. He has received several scientific prizes, including the inaugural Bacon Prize in 2019. After more than three hundred academic articles and ten academic books, his next book is "Conceptual Breakthroughs in the Evolutionary Biology of Aging." Co-authored with Kenneth Arnold, it will be published later this year.