The authors show that aging stops at the level of the individual organism, and explain why evolution allows this. Does Aging Stop? reveals the most paradoxical finding of recent aging research: the cessation of demographic aging. First, aging is not a cumulative physiological process. The implications of this counter-intuitive conclusion are profound, and aging research now needs to accept three uncomfortable truths. Third, strong-inference experimental strategies for aging must be founded in evolutionary research, not cell or molecular biology. Second, the fundamental theory that is required to explain, manipulate, and probe the phenomena of aging comes from evolutionary biology.