From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Fri Jul 26 2002 - 22:05:42 MDT
At 03:47 PM 7/25/02 +0200, Joao Magalhaes wrote:
>I normally ask three questions to any theory of aging: 1) How to
>explain Werner's syndrome?
Isn't this (to some extent at least) just a *mimicry* of
senescence/`aging'? Rather as embryonic unfolding bears an accidental
resemblance to evolutionary development, giving rise to the mistaken theory
that ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny. Is it possible that to a large
extent progeria *doesn't* precapitulate real geria, but just has some
superficial aspects in common? After all, we don't assume that the baldness
of little baby boys shares the same root (so to speak) with receding
hairlines in olde fartes like me.
Damien Broderick
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