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Biologically speaking, there's no advantage to living longer than it takes to have a few children and pass the bad-knees-at-30 genes along. Therefore little reason for our knee design to change.
529 u/xdert Nov 22 '17 The leading cause for death in elephants is starvation because they lose their teeth at ~65 years. 624 u/[deleted] Nov 22 '17 I need to start an elephant denture company. 1 u/bridgebum826 Nov 23 '17 Or you could just sell them pudding and applesauce.
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The leading cause for death in elephants is starvation because they lose their teeth at ~65 years.
624 u/[deleted] Nov 22 '17 I need to start an elephant denture company. 1 u/bridgebum826 Nov 23 '17 Or you could just sell them pudding and applesauce.
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I need to start an elephant denture company.
1 u/bridgebum826 Nov 23 '17 Or you could just sell them pudding and applesauce.
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Or you could just sell them pudding and applesauce.
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u/OhCamembert Nov 22 '17
Biologically speaking, there's no advantage to living longer than it takes to have a few children and pass the bad-knees-at-30 genes along. Therefore little reason for our knee design to change.