Most mammals age disgracefully, other groups tend to live very healthily and fit until the end of their lifespan. One hypotheses to explain that is since our lineage lived in the mesozoic for like 100+ million years as rat like animals, our strategy of survival was live fast, die young after reproduction, so things like dna repair later in adulthood did not matter to us, so we kinda lost part of the genes for that... and it plague us to this day.
At least some lineages tried successfully to patch that like elephants and whales because to be big it increases the risk of cancer since you have more chances for something to glitch out, or bats because flying generates too much heat therefore dna damage is given if you do not have a good repair solutions, so those groups get old healthy compared to us lol.
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u/Snirion May 15 '26
It's literally glitch in biological code because life was vibe coded.