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Re:Physics Makes Aging Inevitable, Not Biology (2016) by malnourish on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @09:16AM (#16429555)
That's untrue, there are a number of biologically immortal creatures[0]. Most recently found being the naked mole rat.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_immortality

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Re:Physics Makes Aging Inevitable, Not Biology (2016) by 52-6F-62 on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @10:21AM (#16430047)
Exactly. Some tortoises as well can live a few hundred years, as well as wales, urchins, sharks, quahog clams, and as someone else mentioned– jellyfish.

Though you won't see any of them developing rockets and space-stations. To what extent that is an evolutionary advantage on our part I'll leave to general consensus.

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