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jjtheblunt
on July 18, 2022
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Blue Zones, where people reach age 100 at 10 times...
that conjecture is famously contradicted by elephants, and it's a topic of research why that is.
Ardon
on July 18, 2022
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No it isn't? Elephants develop cancerous cells at the same rate per cell as every other animal, but have better biological methods of destroying them when those cells do turn cancerous.
jjtheblunt
on July 19, 2022
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Is there a citation for that assertion? It's possible elephants induce apoptosis for aberrant non-cancerous cells, for instance, earlier.
super interesting
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