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Re:Age Reduction Breakthrough? by rantwasp on Monday May 11, 2020 @02:23PM (#23145296)
yes. you need to reproduce and to ensure your offsprings reach sexual maturity. but humans are in no way special. we believe we have escaped our biology because of the cultural stratum we posses (ie exchanged memes for genes) but we are still basically animals.
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Re:Age Reduction Breakthrough? by hammock on Monday May 11, 2020 @03:01PM (#23145685)
Why couldn't it be true that we want to survive to ensure our grand-offspring and great-grandoffspring reach sexual maturity as well? That's a valid strategy (with tradeoffs, as there are with everything)
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Re:Age Reduction Breakthrough? by rantwasp on Monday May 11, 2020 @05:37PM (#23147402)
we definitely want to survive, even with 0 offsprings. That was not the point. The point was the natural selection does not optimize for the longest surviving humans.
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Re:Age Reduction Breakthrough? by waynecochran on Monday May 11, 2020 @07:47PM (#23148811)
Read the answers in the link I gave -- they give seemingly solid answers (I am no expert).
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