291 | Venki Ramakrishnan on the Biology of Death and Aging

2949.18 - 2975.15 Venki Ramakrishnan

And in a small animal, it's not worth it because the animal is going to be killed off by a predator or die of starvation or some other cause. So there it's more advantageous for evolution to put resources into rapid growth and reproduction. And that's what a mouse does. And at the other end, you have things like a bowhead whale or a Greenland shark, very slow metabolism and