271. Peter Ward — The Price of Immortality: The Race to Live Forever
The Michael Shermer Show
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Do We Have to Die at All?
Why do we have to die at all? Why didn't evolution design a body with systems that would just keep going on forever? Yes, that's a good question. One of there's plenty of theories about a. Ah, one of the ries is that oviusly, once you reach a certain age, you're no longer useful a i. So your body is program to go through stages where you have children. And then once you've had children, you no longer want to be competing with those children for resources. E, which makes sense in a very sort of clinical way. But there's still a great deal of mystery about it, right?
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