291 | Venki Ramakrishnan on the Biology of Death and Aging

2085.624 - 2115.647 Venki Ramakrishnan

Why is it that some species live for a day or two and others live for several hundred years or possibly, in the case of plants, even a thousand years or more? And why is there this huge spread? What causes that? What causes us to eventually die? It's a big existential question. Then there's a practical thing, which is societies are getting older. And as societies age, what happens is that