Why do tortoise live so much longer than other reptiles that may be related to them?
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We don’t know. All we know for sure is their organs seem to age much more slowly than those of pretty much anything else. But why they do and how it happens is just not currently known to us. Its the subject of ongoing research though, so hopefully we’ll have answers sooner or later.
There is something called the rate of living theory. Raymond Pearl based his Age of living theory upon the earlier work of Max Rubner and proposed that the maximum lifespan of an animal was related to its metabolic rate sometimes viewed as the number of heartbeats. However this may only be part of the picture with the role of reactive oxygen species in cell deterioration and eventually cell death also playing a part. https://youtu.be/ctEIbPI6A4U
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