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The antagonistic pleiotropy hypothesis was first proposed in a 1952 paper on the evolutionary theory of ageing by Peter Medawar and developed further in a landmark paper by George C. Williams in 1957. Their original hypotheses have since spurred a huge and fruitful literature on the evolutionary explanation for senescence. Pleiotropy is the phenomenon where a single gene influences more than one p... Wikipedia