No aging process, will humans become extinct?

Age and death are not what people want to think about. However, it is the aging process that helps us survive and evolve.

Using computer simulations of two 'competitive' trends, evolutionary biologist Andre Martins from the University of Sao Paolo, Brazil has proven that under certain conditions, this is absolutely true. benefits are not for individuals involved but for all species.

Humans can evolve thanks to the aging process.

Martins model simulates two civilizations with opposite tendencies, one being people over time will not escape death, two people become immortal. Thereby, Martins wants to prove that aging is a beneficial process.

'When there are changes and mutations, every species tries to adapt better to new conditions, ' he said. If humans become immortal, as predicted by future researchers like Ray Kurzweil, we might eventually be defeated by adversary species.

'Aging species have a clear advantage to adapt faster and this adaptive capacity can somehow offset some of the harmful effects of death, ' Martins added.

He said that over time, non-aging species will become extinct.