From: Damien Broderick (damien@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Tue Jan 06 1998 - 05:28:46 MST
At 10:16 AM 1/5/98 -0800, Brian wrote:
>>we can gradually select away at least some aspects of aging by not
>>having children before 30, then 40, then 50...
>I believe we are seeing this now as technology prolongs the period
>human females remain fertile. Recent experiments in egg freezing
>will increase this.
The former, yes. The latter, absolutley not. Unless some gerontocracy
weirdly starts freezing the eggs of very-late fertile women and has them
(1) fertilised with old men's screened sperm and (2) preferentially
implanted into young women. A mass market version of Heinlein's Howard
Families.
Damien Broderick
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