Some species are immortal – but dying of old age is humanity's secret weapon - The Telegraph

Two new books, The Price of Immortality by Peter Ward and Methuselah’s Zoo by Steven N Austad, shed light on mankind's attempt to beat death

Wards wry survey of the weird world of immortalism goes heavy on the early history of cryonics (freezing corpses until we work out how to revive them) but it is light on the science of what we actual… [+2706 chars]

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