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jaidedctrl wrote (edited )

Evolutionary proccesses don't decide what would be more beneficial before it happens-- they only react to change in a species after it has occured. No human happened to evolved (random chance, random incremental mutations) to be non-aging, thus evolutionary proccesses couldn't react and favour them.
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NEOalquimista wrote (edited )

Yes, it's a little hard to picture how this works. Our nature makes no plans. It is subject to the randomness of the universe. A slight change in the environment is enough to force the processes of life to deviate a bit; not because it somehow "feels" it's needed, but by the logic itself - the way its mechanisms work. The machinery of life is extremely sensitive to changes.

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