Chapter 11
1. Scientific American, “The Quest to Beat Aging,” Quarterly Issue, September 6, 2000.
2. A relentless process appears to be working inside the body that sees to the eventual death of man after the reproductive stage of life. And that is ageing. We are actively interfering with it and trying to live life in defiance of our biology.As a matter of fact in the original scheme of nature death was not an integral part of life. It was ‘invented’ at some point of evolution. This is programmed death, a mechanism that evolved along with the evolution of the multi-cellular organism. It appeared after the beginning of reproduction through sex. In a way death is the first sexually transmitted disease. See Lynn Margulis, What is Life? University ...
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