Re:Your body wasn’t built to last: a lesson from human morta...
by Retric on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @03:16PM
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It's less about planned obsolescence that's built into multi celled organisms. The choice is how much energy you spend fighting it.
EX: A fruit fly needs far less cancer defenses than a squirrel. And, 2 fruit flies can become 2,000 fruit fly's a lot faster than 2 squirrels can become 2,000 squirrels. But, fruit fly's can't eat nuts so as long as trees produce nuts there is a nitch it takes something with at least the mass of a squirrels to fill.
EX: A fruit fly needs far less cancer defenses than a squirrel. And, 2 fruit flies can become 2,000 fruit fly's a lot faster than 2 squirrels can become 2,000 squirrels. But, fruit fly's can't eat nuts so as long as trees produce nuts there is a nitch it takes something with at least the mass of a squirrels to fill.