Thesis # 14 - Aging hypotheses based solely on supposed
universal imperfections of molecular, cell, or organismal
physiology are wholly falsified by the existence of biological
species that do not exhibit falling average rates of survival
and reproduction among large cohorts maintained under good
conditions, a pattern exhibited by some fissile coelenterates,
for example. But there is no need for a Darwinian biologist to
be particularly eloquent about the falsity of conventional
gerontological theories. The images of the round Earth supplied
by the NASA Apollo missions that reached the Moon obviously
annihilate Flat Earth theory. Likewise, evolution has supplied
devastating refutations of the cumulative damage theories of
mainstream aging research. Those refutations are the animal
species that don’t show aging. At all. It is now a well-
demonstrated fact of aging research that there are some animals
which do not show a detectable increase in rates of dying with
time, even after decades of maintenance. Under the