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1,000 year old yew
This healthy yew has stood for at least 1,000 years in St. Nicholas churchyard near Brockenhurst, UK. New analyses of life-history evolution show how any such sessile organism can postpone indefinitely the onset of senescent aging. Simulations further demonstrate for the first time the possibility of evolved immortality (see Seymour and Doncaster, e256).
Image Credit: Photograph by C. Patrick Doncaster, University of Southampton, UK
Citation: (2007) PLoS Computational Biology Issue Image | Vol. 3(12) December 2007. PLoS Comput Biol 3(12): ev03.i12. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pcbi.v03.i12
Published: December 28, 2007
Copyright: © 2007 Seymour et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
This healthy yew has stood for at least 1,000 years in St. Nicholas churchyard near Brockenhurst, UK. New analyses of life-history evolution show how any such sessile organism can postpone indefinitely the onset of senescent aging. Simulations further demonstrate for the first time the possibility of evolved immortality (see Seymour and Doncaster, e256).
Image Credit: Photograph by C. Patrick Doncaster, University of Southampton, UK