Physics Makes Aging Inevitable, Not Biology (2016)

Re:Physics Makes Aging Inevitable, Not Biology (2016) by JohnJamesRambo on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @08:48AM (#16429373)

Science suggests the opposite of what you are saying about keeping the old around, I believe. It may be one reason humans are so long-lived.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandmother_hypothesis

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Re:Physics Makes Aging Inevitable, Not Biology (2016) by sarumpaet on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @08:54AM (#16429411)

This is just evolution doing gradient boosting. I like it.

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Re:Physics Makes Aging Inevitable, Not Biology (2016) by fooker on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @03:33PM (#16432722)

This is cool. Still seems to have a limit though.

How many of these elders do you need to care for your children though? 2, 4, 8, 16, ...? Maybe grandmother hypothesis works, but evolution would not care much for a great-grandmother hypothesis.

This actually seems consistent with the current lifespan of human beings. Most people have grandparents when they are children. Very few people have great-grandparents.

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