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		kabouseng on Feb 21, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Physics Makes Aging Inevitable, Not Biology (2016) Not really, if you stay young forever you can procreate forever and "out" procreate the rest of your species that still ages.

jamesrcole on Feb 21, 2018 [–]

But they're not really your competition. Their offspring, and their offspring, and so on, are. And "designs" that don't have to put resources into longer life can use them for better propagating genes.

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