Re:No limit to maximal lifespan in humans: how to beat a 122...
by vmception on Thursday December 16, 2021 @09:04AM
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All natural selection is a glitch and pure happenstance with no meaning, only retroactively applied to have a purpose.
Octopus may well have genes to make them more social as they get older, but at 3 years old it hasn't developed.
Humans are useful to one another past childbearing age because we're social animals: caring for grandchildren helps them survive. Octopods, otoh, are notoriously solitary animals. Once they're done reproducing, surviving adults would mainly be in competition with the young.