BIOL 300 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Anxiety Disorder, Heritability, Gene Therapy
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Evolution and genetics offer new hope for the medical treatment of the elderly. When you get older, things break down. Favor new genes for reproduction at youth, rather than bad genes as we age. Body can"t really live longer than 100 120 years. In principle, the notion of how to extend age for fruit flies can be done for humans. Humans live so long due to patterns of selection. Postponement of human aging will be achieved by combining evolutionary and other biotechnologies. Not modified through regulation, but genes can be mimicking what long life. Our bodies aren"t limited to only so much, as there is no maximum lifespan genes are doing. Anxiety can be helpful for our own survival in an uncertain world. Ancestors scared of poisonous snakes or predators. Schizophrenia is an example of a darwinian brain disorder. Disease that occurred in early development, causing people to.
