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Super interesting. Please tell me more, like what you are taking besides that. I find it especially interesting how some multicellular macro organisms like jel
by csdvrx 5y ago
Super interesting. Please tell me more, like what you are taking besides that.
I find it especially interesting how some multicellular macro organisms like jellyfish (one of the oldest ancestor of all non insect animals) have no aging, while humans and most other animals do.
Could it be that their immune system or simply their evolutionary path prevented them from being exposed to such endoviruses, that may simply be too omnipresent (or long integrated) in about every other species to be selected out? (They could also present an advantage at the population scale, by ensuring a quick turnover and therefore more genetic evolution simply by filtering out not just the unadvantageous gene but the older adults, thus offering more opportunities for the new generation to replace them faster)
This could be supported if jellyfish had less requirements for evolution, like a stable ecological niche - something I have no idea about!