Re:Giant Pacific Octopus
by lisper on Friday September 18, 2020 @11:52AM
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Human life spans are driven by the fact that newborn humans need the support of their parents to survive until they reach sexual maturity. So there is selective pressure on humans to live just long enough to see their grandchildren born and not much longer. Octopi don't have that constraint. They just need to reproduce, then they're done.
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Re:Giant Pacific Octopus
by mindfulplay on Friday September 18, 2020 @11:56AM
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Actually not. Octopuses (female) breed their young for months without eating and then die off. Seems like they have perfected this system over millenia via evolution?