From: eastside.erik@gmail.com   
      
   On 12/12/25 10:25 PM, Pro Plyd wrote:   
   > RonO wrote:   
   >> https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Culture/dick-van-dyke-prepares-tur   
   -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?   
   >   
   I think Dalton IS an alien.  As for "older humans help", my grandmother   
   lived in my family when I was a kid, and she tought me to read by   
   reading Donald Duck comics to me when I was about four years old.   
      
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