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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Reverend: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Daniel Butler: [qb] Reverend: I didn't mean to suggest anything like intelligent design. I just meant that evolution produced lifeforms which are "supposed" to die; if living things didn't die, there would be no next generation, thus defeating the entire process and ensuring evolution would never exist ;) [/qb][/QUOTE]Well that is one of THE questions of biology. The way I tend to look at it, ageing is not so much an evolutionary adaption (or choice, depending how you look at it) but just a by-product of the inherently imperfect nature of passing information along. The cellular equivalent of Chinese Whispers, if you will. Of course I could be utterly wrong, I'm not a biologist. Of course being biologically immortal is a problem to evolution, though not necessarily a terminal one since there's always starvation and predators to keep the older generations in check. In fact I think some microscopic creatures are technically immortal. In the case of Claire, I'm not sure if she's immortal or not since she is ageing seemingly normally. Perhaps the effect of her regeneration is cumulative, the more she's injured, the slower she ages. Like a callus but on a more basic cellular level. On the other hand it could be the other way around. What if repeatedly regenerating accelerates the process of cellular DNA damage? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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