From: invalide@invalid.invalid   
      
   RonO wrote:   
   > https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Culture/dick-van-dyke-prepares-turn   
   100-im-lucky/story?id=128322788   
   >   
   > He claims to go to the gym 3 times a week, and hasn't seemed to have   
   > slowed down mentally.  This is not normal.   
   >   
   > For some reason humans have evolved to get old and degenerate.  Some   
   > birds reproduce out to a century of age.  There was a recent article   
   > about a century old tortoise reproducing.  They believe that women go   
   > through menopause in order to survive longer.  We depend on our culture,   
   > and humans are able to learn cultural necessities in greater numbers and   
   > faster than our ape contemporaries.  There has been selection for aiding   
   > cultural integrity by extending the lives of some members of the clan,   
   > but your ancestors are direct competitors, and it looks like humans were   
   > never selected for lengthy survival after their reproductive years.   
      
   Someone tell David Dalton we found one of his aliens...   
      
   PS - what about the notion that older humans help with   
   raising young etc?   
      
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