Re: Evolutionary pressures to extend life (was: Jack La Lanne dies at 97)

[Guest guest]

Good science fiction makes us think.. and his bet, is probably as good as many others.I fear we may invest too much effort sometimes into living longer, and not enough into accomplishing something with the time we spend here. Heinlein certainly accomplished much with his writing, and left his footprints in the sand.. Thanks for the reference. We will return now to your normally scheduled program. JRPS: Sorry about the veer... I was trying to be humorous. On Jan 24, 2011, at 4:54 PM, Steve Sergeant wrote:

Science fiction author A. Heinlein came up with a solution

for that in his description of the " Families".

See: [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/_families ]

For all we know, someone might actually be doing this.

On 1/24/11 14:18 PM, john roberts wrote:

Now if we could come up with a good way to make evolution

reward us living to 150, and a few tens of thousands of years

for evolution to do the hard work. Perhaps if we didn't have

our first offspring until 100 years old, that would apply

evolutionary pressure to reward living longer. Anybody that

patient? :-)

[Guest guest]

I think we all know a centenarian or two,my grandmother died in 2003 at 102

years old, she never smoked or drinked alcohol but never did much physical

exercise either (excluding house chores).She was in good shape and living alone

at 100 years.

I gave her some multivitamins to help her improve her nutrition and after she

died we found all the multis boxes hidden in the kitchen, she never took the

pills!!!

Henry

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> >> Now if we could come up with a good way to make evolution reward us living

to 150, and a few tens of thousands of years for evolution to do the hard work.

Perhaps if we didn't have our first offspring until 100 years old, that would

apply evolutionary pressure to reward living longer. Anybody that patient?

:-)

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