PBS Eons: How Dinosaurs May Have Cursed Us With Aging

PBS Eons has a new episode. This one is about how aging in mammals might be due to evolved traits while we lived alongside dinosaurs.

Even though the dinosaurs that once hunted us are long gone, we still, in a sense, may be living in their shadows…

Because, it turns out, those terrible lizards might be the reason we age faster than any other vertebrate group.

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