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Andreas Vlach • 17 cards
In organisms, we know what causes senescence (the tendency to grow feeble with age). It is antagonistic pleiotropy, the propensity of selection to favor heritable traits that provide early life benefits even when they carry inevitable late life costs.3 This willingness to accept harm in old age occurs because selection sees the early life benefits
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problems.
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Birth, death and grief
Mary Beard • SPQR
space / times of chaos, anxiety, pain, and loss of control.
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KAIROS. (noun) from the ancient Greek καιρός: the right, critical, or opportune moment to make a decision or take action.
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state of heightened awareness, an arousal or agitation.