291 | Venki Ramakrishnan on the Biology of Death and Aging

4849.828 - 4877.897 Venki Ramakrishnan

Let's say we all started living very, very long lives. And if you don't want a population growth, explosion, then what you have to have is very slow turnover. And this means the same people are hanging on with very slow change in society. And you would have, I think, a stagnant society. Because even though we're living longer, it does turn out that we're at our most creative when we're young.