What differentiates the aging process in different organisms?
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Humans are much more complicated. In particular, they use these special cells called neurons to make an organ called the brain. Jellyfish don’t have brains, in the same tool using way, and humans think that having brains is more important than living longer.
The average human start producing less new cells than are dying around the age of 25. There currently are genetic efforts made to prolong this replacement to slow down aging. However humans are so complex that it would not make us immortal. There will always be some flaw in our system that kills us eventually. Jellyfish are among the most simple macro-organisms. Most others, even way simpler than the human, do not have this feature. Wether that is to increase evolutionary development or just a drawback of complexity is beyond my understanding.
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