There would be NO evolutionary advantage to living forever. The world would be occupied by organisms that remained unchanged since they started to live.
There would be NO reproductive mechanism, since an organism that lives forever has no reason and no need to produce offspring.
So there would be no way for new organisms to come into existence, and the original “immortal” organisms would be the only ones on Earth.
He’s wrong.
Not aging, or not dying of old age, wouldn’t mean your immortal. There’s still physical accidents, predation, weather, drought, flood, volcanos, asteroids…Mother Nature has other ways to take you out.
I’m not saying I believe that, I’m saying that’s what is meant in the article.
‘Time Enough for Love’
- Robert Heinlein
“There would be NO evolutionary advantage to living forever.”
Uh? That’s the definition of evolutionary success - an organism that has survived regardless of what nature has thrown at it.
That’s the pinnacle of evolutionary advantage, no?