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Re:Your body wasn’t built to last: a lesson from human morta... by abandonliberty on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @04:26PM (#9416812)
The programmed senescence model fits with this observation quite well. It argues that aging isn't the result of a breakdown or accumulated damage, but rather a deterministic process based on our genetic programming.

Evolution programmed us to make a human, but it didn't program us to stop developing. We're like a cake left in the oven. No one told the concrete suppliers to go home, so they just keep dumping it everywhere on our completed skyscraper.

We were built to die.

http://www.senescence.info/programmed_aging.html

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Re:Your body wasn’t built to last: a lesson from human morta... by eevilspock on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @07:03PM (#9417757)
I get and agree with your first paragraph, but can't make sense of your second.
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Re:Your body wasn’t built to last: a lesson from human morta... by CapitalistCartr on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @07:23PM (#9417836)
He is badly mixing metaphors. One baking, the other construction.
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