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There are two phenomena that must have biological terms. Can
anyone help with these?
1. There is a desert zone across the planet in the
subtropical areas lining the tropic of Capricorn and
Cancer - is there a term for that?
2. I note that slow metabolism = long life in the longest
living creatures and plants, lichen, the Welsitsdchia
mirabilis, millenium plant, tortoises, bristlecone pines,
etc. Is there a term or model for that idea?
TomHendricks474 <[email hidden]> wrote or quoted:
Quoted message said:2. I note that slow metabolism = long life in the longest
living creatures and plants, lichen, the Welsitsdchia
mirabilis, millenium plant, tortoises, bristlecone
pines, etc. Is there a term or model for that idea?
"rate of living theory"?
E.g. see:
``Living fast, dying when? The link between aging and
energetics''
``[...] Machines that are run fast wear out more quickly, so
the notion was born that humans and animals might experience
similar fates: the faster they live (expressed as greater
energy expenditure), the sooner they
die. Evidence supporting the "rate-of-living" theory was
gleaned from the scaling of resting metabolism and
life span as functions of body mass. The product of
these factors yields a mass-invariant term,
equivalent to the "amount of living." There are at
least four problems with this evidence [...]''
- calorierestriction.orgpmidOpen ↗
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Quoted message said:TomHendricks474 <[email hidden]> wrote or quoted:
Quoted message said:2. I note that slow metabolism = long life in the
longest living creatures and plants, lichen, the
Welsitsdchia mirabilis, millenium plant, tortoises,
bristlecone pines, etc. Is there a term or model for
that idea?"rate of living theory"?
E.g. see:
``Living fast, dying when? The link between aging and
energetics''``[...] Machines that are run fast wear out more quickly,
so the notion
was
Quoted message said:born that humans and animals might experience similar
fates: the faster they live (expressed as greater energy
expenditure), the sooner they
die. Evidence supporting the "rate-of-living" theory
was gleaned from the scaling of resting metabolism
and life span as functions of body mass. The
product of these factors yields a mass-invariant
term, equivalent to the "amount of living." There
are at least four problems with this evidence
[...]''- calorierestriction.orgpmidOpen ↗
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This inverse phenomenon also holds generally for heartbeats,
that is, the faster an animal's heartbeat the shorter its
lifespan. Which gives rise to the heartbeat-invariant system
holding that every organism is born with a set number of
heartbeats. Take home message: don't exercise, you're using
them up faster.
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