Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
291 | Venki Ramakrishnan on the Biology of Death and Aging
Venki Ramakrishnan
And even within the developing embryo, defective cells are destroyed. So I think this... I thought about why is it that we get old, but when a child is born, it's not born old. So it's as if the biological clock has been reset every generation. And that's because of this combination of protection and against damage for the germ cells and ruthless selection.
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