[__ Science __ ] Axolotl—Forever Young

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Their ability to regenerate makes these salamanders the closest thing to the fountain of youth found in nature.

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The new idea that before the Fall, all organisms ate plants, is a false doctrine, with no scriptural support or scientific evidence.

The death God mentioned to Adam was a spiritual death, not a physical one. He told Adam that he would die the day he ate from the tree, but Adam lived on physically for many years thereafter. If we can believe God, the death Adam brought into the world was never a physical one.

Incidentally, the primary anatomical differences between humans and chimpanzees are the result of neotony. We look much more like a very young ape than like a fully-grown one. Relatively large cranium, small face and teeth, foramen magnum (where the spinal cord enters the cranium) underneath rather than at the rear of the skull, and so on.

As the article suggests, even a small genetic change in developmental timing, can result in very large changes.