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		meijer on April 13, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ageing studies in five animals suggests how to rev... Some animals age very, very little: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negligible_senescence Among them the Naked Mole Rat, a mammal. So it looks like evolution can do it. But it usually doesn't.

joak on April 13, 2023 [–]

In some animals old age has a reproductive advantage. As for turtles and some fishes: Old age => Bigger => less predators + more eggs

For these species most of the new born are babies of very old females.

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