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... inevitable that even evoltuion cannot fix. After all, all those very long lived organisms that I know of are either reptiles or other cold-blooded animals, or plants, which all have low metabolic rates and thus probably less oxidative damage and defects resulting from that. Size has similar ...

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... properly (e.g. in liquid nitrogen or colder). However, currently there are no means to cryogenically store bigger animals, not to mention warm-blooded mammals such as humans. Uneven distribution of cryopreservants, uneven freezing/thawing speeds and the complexity of systemic functions such ...

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... Certain largish amphibians seem to be able to cryopreserve themselves to some degree (getting back to "life" is much easier with cold-blooded animals), but those are the biggest things there are that survive some degree of cryoprservation - and even that is not a real thing, since ...

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... organism is, the poorer its regenerative capabilities are. Like it has already bee sain in this thread, in bigger animals and especially in warm-blooded ones, there is much more acute need to stop bleeding and create scar tissue to block the wound rather than trying to grow back a limb. I believe ...

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This isn't exactly my area, but if I got it right, high termal inertia is often inversely proportional to the metabolic rate (of a warm blooded animal). Graphs that display that metabolic rates rise when temperature rises is a bit another thing. Thermal inertia, afaik, is a simple physical ...

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