Once DNA acquires the ability to persist forever, the carriers become disposable. Essentially, our bodies are designed to last long enough to reproduce.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Every animal would rather die themselves than lose their offspring. But it's just genes, isn't it? All of our existence is spent worrying about the next generation, but we don't actually seem to get anywhere.
To sustain longevity, you have to evolve.
Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow.
Cells will die in minutes to days if they lack their genetic information system. They will not evolve, they will not replicate, and they will not live.
The general rule is that anything that is passed on in reproduction does not undergo senescence.
Our understanding of how DNA informs our health and development is advancing at an incredible pace.
We found out that, contrary to what many people thought, in the immune system, genes can change during the life cycle of the individual.
I thought we'd just sequence the genome once and that would be sufficient for most things in people's lifetimes. Now we're seeing how changeable and adaptable it is, which is why we're surviving and evolving as a species.
The evolutionary theory of senescence can be stated as follows: while bodies are not designed to fail, neither are they designed for extended operation.
It is the cells which create and maintain in us, during the span of our lives, our will to live and survive, to search and experiment, and to struggle.
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