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Author Topic:   What is the EVOLUTIONARY advantage of death?
Chiroptera
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Message 20 of 32 (62955)
10-26-2003 7:15 PM
Reply to: Message 16 by Rationalist
10-25-2003 12:13 PM


The explanations that I read is that aging is just that the rejuvenation/repair mechanisms aren't perfectly efficient and so the "wear" builds up, causing aging. If, because of disease (caused by parasites) and predators, most of the individuals in a certain population are dead by 45 years old, there is no evolutionary advantage to develope repair mechanisms that will keep a body in perfect health past 45.

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