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Food for thought: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negligible_senescence

Not all animals are pre-programmed for an early death. I wonder if curve for these animals looks like the lightening bolt curve?

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The interesting question is how you figure out those curves in a decent amount of time and cost. When you pull a lobster out of a wild population, how do you determine how old it is? Lobsters live way too long to take the sit and wait approach with a lab population, and to date there's no reliable way to determine lobster age. So that's still a real challenge, not least because there isn't all that much interest in lobster aging.

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2007/06/ageless-animals-t...

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