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The 'longevity bottleneck' hypothesis: Research suggests that dinosaurs may have influenced how human beings age (phys.org)

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[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I guess so, they were just stepping on us and chomping us up so we had to hurry up and mature to make babies. Side effect of rapid maturation - getting dead too fast

[–] Opafi@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So we ended up with a survival strategy that benefited the species but hurt the individual? Like... Swamp dragons? Guess we can be lucky we don't explode.

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Exactly, we are less exciting and dangerous swamp dragons.