Researchers suggest that dinosaurs could have had an influence on how humans age.
Science: Recent research suggests that dinosaurs could have had an influence on how humans age.
According to a new hypothesis from a leading expert on aging, millions of years dinosaur dominance may have influenced human aging. Professor Joao de Magalhaes of the University of Birmingham has proposed the ‘longevity-bottleneck’ hypothesis in a recent study published in BioEssays. The hypothesis relates the role dinosaurs played in the past 100 million years to the aging of mammals.
All mammals, including humans, show a distinct aging process.
The hypothesis of Professor de Magalhaes suggests that, during the Mesozoic Period, during the reigning dinosaurs, mammals were under constant pressure to reproduce rapidly, and this over a period of 100 million years resulted in the loss or deactivation of genes related to long life. These include processes linked with DNA repair, tissue regeneration, and the ability to regenerate tissues.
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