Re: "Immortality" gene revealed
Erik Moeller (flagg@oberberg-online.de)
Sat, 03 Jan 1998 00:31:51 +0100
Anders Sandberg wrote:
>
> Tony Benjamin Csoka <csoka@itsa.ucsf.edu> writes:
>
> > I agree that telomerase might not be the "immortality gene" but could you
> > provide a reference to support your statement that Galapogos tortoises
> > don't appear to age. I thought they just had a long lifespan?
>
> I don't know about the tortoises, but there are some species that do
> not age, most notably some fishes and lobsters. They do not age, and
> just grow slowly larger until an accident or lack of food does them
> in. I don't have Leonard Hayflick's _How and Why We Age_ here, but he
> discuss this subject.
Maybe it would be helpful to create a detailed table/overview of species
which do not age, including their habitat. Parallels?
Erik