Oliver Bogler (obogler at ucsd.edu) wrote:
: In article <3qd1fe$bl5 at adelbert11.Stanford.EDU>,
:cpatil at leland.Stanford.EDU (Christopher Kashinath Patil) wrote:
: > Do unicellular organisms age?
: > 2) Do all multicellular organisms age? If not, what is the complexity thresh-
: > hold for aging?
Greetings
Leonard Hayflick addresses this issue in his (1994) book, "How and Why We
Age". It seems that the answer depends a great deal on your definition of
the word aging.
Hayflick sites many species, lobsters, many fishes and sharks and some
reptiles (tortoise) and amphibians (aligators) that do not age (or
at least age at a *very* solw rate) but he is careful to point out that they
are not immortal. A common trait in non aging species is they never stop
growing. This is found in chapter 2 of his book.
Regards
R. Luly
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