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... 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 effect: small animals have fast metabolism and usually ...

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... span, even though we cannot detect anything being wrong at any single time point. This could mean something like wasting or increased infection rates or similar. When their number is less, i don't think they'll make for a significant loss of energy from the body. The system as a whole can manage ...

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... span, even though we cannot detect anything being wrong at any single time point. This could mean something like wasting or increased infection rates or similar.

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... lupus ssp. familiaris? It's all jumbled. So if you imagine a graph in which the change in organisms' genes over time is mapped, you'll see varying rates of change, interspersed by periods of relative stability. It is during those states of stability that we can, with some confidence, consider a ...

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... that teach responded to a concentration gradient of the same magnitude. Would you expect those two ions to move across the membrane at the same rates? Why or why not? I always take a galliant effort to try to answer my own questions before posting. I have researched this possibility and come ...

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