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“The puzzle has two sides: why and how has the somatic part of higher animals come to be mortal, and how is the germ-line kept free of the progressive deterioration in the soma?" https://t.co/UeTfibu2G5
“The puzzle has two sides: why and how has the somatic part of higher animals come to be mortal, and how is the germ-line kept free of the progressive deterioration in the soma?" https://t.co/UeTfibu2G5
“The germ-line of species is immortal, at least in the sense that an unbroken continuity extends backwards in time to the origin of terrestrial life and forwards in time to an indeterminate future. This observation is a truism." https://t.co/UeTfibu2G5