Considering that aging only happens later in life, it wouldn't have much of an effect on how efficient humans produce offspring, so it wouldn't be selected against. It is the same explanation for why Huntington's and Alzheimer's are still around.

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Shitty-kitty 21 hours ago | parent | next [-]

There are 2 stages. Growth, till ~20 and then it switches to aging.

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zorobo a day ago | parent | prev [-]

> Considering that aging only happens later in life,

In other news, widows outlive their husbands.

	▲	someonebaggy 15 hours ago \| parent [-]
		We are not talking about your amount of time on earth going up, we are talking about the biological mechanisms that happen later in life.