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Thursday, July 20, 2006

Why don't we live longer?

It occurs to me that a shorter individual lifespan confers an inherent evolutionary advantage (more generations compressed into the same time period, allowing for greater variation/adaptation) and therefore one would expect shorter lives to develop from once-longer ones over time, all else being equal...

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