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b_b  ·  4116 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Woman Who Doesn't Grow/Age

I find the telomere hypothesis to be a bit silly. There isn't a thing (molecular biologically speaking) that causes aging. There is, however, entropy. Organisms are far too ordered to stayed sable for a long period of time. My guess is that the degradation of organisms is general and protracted, and not due to one or several molecular processes.