Thinking a lot about ratchets lately. Internal and external. Ratchets are more fundamental than clocks. Things that can only grow in one direction, and reversed only via destruction.
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the first example that leapt to mind was tree growth (can self-prune or let fire/environment prune but can’t un-grow)
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hormonal regulation of growth? hence trans activists focus on puberty blockers... harder to transition if you have to rewind first insect life cycle... egg --> caterpillar --> pupa --> adult? Not sure how that's regulated.
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Telomere shortening
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Apparently tau-tangling is implicated in Alzheimer's too
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