Leonard Hayflick Quotes

• It is astonishing to realise that the human species survived hundreds of thousands of years, more than 99 percent of its time on this planet, with a life expectancy of only eighteen years.

  Leonard Hayflick

  Years, Evolution, Planets

  Leonard Hayflick (1994). “How and why we age”

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• A fruitfly is ancient in 40 days,
  a mouse at 3 years, a horse at 30,
  a man at 100, and some species of
  tortoises not until 150 years.

  Leonard Hayflick

  Horse, Men, Years

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