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aging doesn't seem fundamental to life to me. There is known complex life that doesn't age. I expect age is a huge driver of evolution in many cases so it makes
by rowanG077 1y ago
aging doesn't seem fundamental to life to me. There is known complex life that doesn't age. I expect age is a huge driver of evolution in many cases so it makes sense that most life has it.
- fc417fc802 1y agoYou have that backwards. In many cases aging hasn't noticably impeded evolution so it hasn't been selected against.
- rowanG077 1y agoYou misunderstood what I said. I'm saying not aging does clearly impede evolution. This is not some exotic idea, it's be brought forth before: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1558-5646.1957.tb02911.x https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1558-5646....