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by mitteldorf
4177 days ago
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Marginal effect on INDIVIDUAL fitness, but a huge effect on THE FITNESS OF ECOSYSTEMS. Without aging, ecosystems would be unstable dynamic systems, and would not last more than a single generation. Without aging, everyone would die at once, in famines and natural disasters. Aging is necessary to spread out the death rate, so that populations don't swing wildly up and down. |
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