The dominant theory of aging today was conceived at a time when genes were thought to be biological destiny. Handiwork of George Williams, it is called Antagonistic Pleiotropy. Pleiotropy is the idea that one gene can have multiple effects, and the core of the AP theory is that there are genes that give us strength […]
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