X-Message-Number: 29484 From: "Basie" <> Subject: More on Gavrilov Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 14:24:53 -0400 Perhaps you are the one that does not understand. " The theory explains why mortality rates increase exponentially with age (the Gompertz law) in many species, by taking into account the initial flaws (defects) in newly formed systems" The organism is a system with initial flaws (defective cells). The ratio of good to bad determines the organisms rate of aging. Which is different for every specie. There is a good article on Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliability_theory_of_aging_and_longevity with numerous references to other work by this author. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=29484