“Let's consider two paths that nature could take. The first way: to endow a living being with practical immortality and plasticity, allowing the creature to change throughout its entire life, ideally endless, adapting to the pressure of external circumstances... The second: to limit the life span of a creature to an insignificant value, but to provide them with random and purely excessive variability in offspring.”For someone whose evolution followed the first path, there is no fate worse than choking at dinner.