From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Fri Dec 15 2000 - 17:50:40 MST
At 12:38 PM 15/12/00 -0800, Jason Joel wrote:
>As you've noted, food was historically a much greater issue than being able
>to live to 150... and people past their reproductive prime stop contributing
>to the gene pool, and start eating all your oatmeal.
Yeah, yeah. But look:
>the scientists report, the
> long-lived flies appeared as
> healthy and fit as normal
> flies, continuing to
> reproduce long after most
> flies without the mutation
> had died.
http://channel.nytimes.com/2000/12/15/science/15AGIN.html
Damien Broderick
[gave at the office]
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