Living a long time (relatively) is something to do with the same stuff that causes gout, I believe.
I also believe there are two reproductive strategies, and we've gone in for the caring for the young version with a vengeance. Apart from some blokes, of course... On 16 February 2014 11:16, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote: > On 2/15/2014 2:17 PM, Russell Standish wrote: > >> On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 11:08:07AM +0100, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >>> On 14 Feb 2014, at 20:47, meekerdb wrote: >>> >>> On 2/14/2014 7:12 AM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: >>>> >>>> I find cuttlefish fascinating. They are social, relatively >>>> intelligent, can communicate, able to grasp and manipulate things. >>>> It seems like they were all set to become the dominant large life >>>> form (instead of humans). >>>> >>> A mystery: they don't live a long time. Usually "intelligence" go >>> with a rather long life, but cuttlefishes live one or two years. >>> >> Yes - I find that surprising also. >> > > Which is not doubt related to having only one clutch of young. But I > wonder what is the evolutionary and physiological reason for that? > > Brent > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
