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Ep 101 Immortality: This Podcast Won't Kill You

This Podcast Will Kill You

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Evolutionary Fitness and the Evolution of Life

Death and aging are essential parts of life, even for those supposedly immortal animals that you see like clickbate headlines about. In terms of natural selection, it doesn't really matter how long we live past the point when we're no longer reproductively valuable," he says. But traits that make you more likely to reproduce or survive through the end of reproductive age will be selected for becoming more common.

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