http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2011/03/we-age-because-th...
And the fundamental mechanisms of aging got their start in single celled life, very early on.
http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2005/02/aubrey-de-grey-5....
None of which is a good reason for suffering aging when we could do something about it: it's just the mechanistic explanation for what is.