‘We may be programmed to die’

PEOPLE may be programmed to die before they need to, for the good of the human race, a scientist claimed yesterday.

‘We may be programmed to die’

The controversial theory turns Charles Darwin’s ideas about natural selection on their head.

According to the conventional view of evolution, selection picks out winners and losers in the survival game at an individual level.

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