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Re:Massive genetic study shows how humans are evolving by memeCrasher on Sunday September 10, 2017 @02:54PM (#15213669)
Could be that the genes have a deleterious effect in youth, not just old age.
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Re:Massive genetic study shows how humans are evolving by AlexCoventry on Sunday September 10, 2017 @05:19PM (#15214364)
Or it could be that aging is a complex process which a naive experiment like this is unlikely to shed much light on.
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Re:Massive genetic study shows how humans are evolving by mannykannot on Sunday September 10, 2017 @03:00PM (#15213702)
That is one of the hypotheses advanced in the article.
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