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What is the EVOLUTIONARY advantage of death?

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10-24-2003 7:01 PM 		Reply to: Message 11 by Mespo
10-24-2003 5:12 PM

Re: The Aging Gene?
Simple. You age and die, you free up resources, so that in the next generation (of which some are more fit, and some less fit), the more fit generations replace you.
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If you don't die, you don't free up the resources, your species stagnates, and is outcompeted.
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