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Tim Kellogg (kellogh@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 11-Aug-2024 17:55:00 JST Tim Kellogg

do you ever think about how some organisms, like lobsters, don’t age and are effectively immortal, but most do age? like, we evolved to die. it was evolutionarily advantageous to die, otherwise most organisms would be immortal

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  Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 11-Aug-2024 17:55:00 JST Aral Balkan
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  @kellogh Apparently not true for lobsters (https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/are-lobsters-immortal.html) but there is this jellyfish: https://www.science.org.au/curious/earth-environment/animals-can-live-forever
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    Are lobsters immortal?
    
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    Is there any truth to the memes that claim lobsters can live forever?

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