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1,000 year old yew
This healthy yew has stood for at least 1,000 years in St. Nicholas churchyard near Brockenhurst, UK. New analyses of life-history evolution show how any such sessile organism can postpone indefinitely the onset of senescent aging. Simulations further demonstrate for the first time the possibility of evolved immortality (see Seymour and Doncaster, e256).
Image Credit: Photograph by C. Patrick Doncaster, University of Southampton, UK
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