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by WhoBeI 2476 days ago
Buildup of damage due to radiation, chemicals and the like would introduce more errors/damage into offspring.
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I like David Sinclair's idea that while DNA can be considered digital data, copying it is an analog process and we end up with copies of copies of copies, each a little worse than the previous one, while DNA is still intact.

It sounds too simple to be true, but it's an interesting information theoretical based hypothesis.