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Re:Physics Makes Aging Inevitable, Not Biology (2016) by kabouseng on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @08:30AM (#16429280)
Not really, if you stay young forever you can procreate forever and "out" procreate the rest of your species that still ages.
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Re:Physics Makes Aging Inevitable, Not Biology (2016) by jamesrcole on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @08:48AM (#16429379)
But they're not really your competition. Their offspring, and their offspring, and so on, are. And "designs" that don't have to put resources into longer life can use them for better propagating genes.
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