We gratefully acknowledge the support of the National
Science Foundation for the supporting the collection of the
majority of the data stored in the database; in the past decade in
particular we acknowledge support from IBN 9985910, IBN 0322613,
IBN 0322781, BCS 0323553, BCS 0323596, DEB 0846286, DEB 0846532
and DEB 0919200. We are also very grateful for support from the
National Institute of Aging (R01AG034513-01 and P01AG031719) and
the Princeton Center for the Demography of Aging (P30AG024361). We
also thank the Chicago Zoological Society, the Max Planck
Institute for Demographic Research, the L.S.B. Leakey Foundation
and the National Geographic Society for support at various times
over the years. In addition, we thank the National Institute of
Aging (R03-AG045459-01) for supporting recent work extending the
database to incorporate genetic and genomic data.
Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations
expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not
necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation,
the National Institute of Aging, the Princeton Center for the
Demography of Aging, the Chicago Zoological Society, the Max
Planck Institute for Demographic Research, the L.S.B. Leakey
Foundation, the National Geographic Society, or any other
organization which has supplied support for this work.
