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Ecologists are finding animals and plants that defy aging.
FROM THE SEPTEMBER 2014 ISSUE of DISCOVER MAGAZINE
Nature's Anti-Aging Secret
Ecologists are finding animals and plants that defy aging.
A dozen years ago, Daniel Doak began crawling around the Alaskan tundra carrying a container of colorful party toothpicks. He was there on the chilly North Slope at the top of the continent to study moss campion, a low, flat plant that explodes with pink flowers in early summer. Moss campion seedlings are “the size of the head of a pushpin,” Doak says, and 20 years can pass before they grow much bigger. Nonetheless, Doak, an ecologist at the University of Colorado, dutifully id.
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