Timeline for How do I explain the long life spans of Elves?
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| Feb 7, 2020 at 8:29 | comment | added | justthisonequestion | Bowhead whales live long: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4536333 | |
| Feb 7, 2020 at 0:18 | answer | added | StackOverthrow | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 6, 2020 at 22:30 | answer | added | Paul Endymion | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 6, 2020 at 17:29 | comment | added | jamesqf | You can't have elves without magic, pretty much by definition. | |
| Feb 6, 2020 at 16:48 | comment | added | nigel222 | If you want a hard-science explanation: they genetically modified themselves. Then their civilisation fell. Hard. A long time ago even in elf-lifetimes. Remembered only as folklore (and maybe rare bits of "old magic" which are actually technology) | |
| Feb 6, 2020 at 16:42 | comment | added | GrandmasterB | As a different approach, if this is a fantasy store, don't explain it. | |
| Feb 6, 2020 at 16:30 | comment | added | nigel222 | Why do Koi Carp live 200+ years? Other fish of similar size don't. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koi | |
| Feb 6, 2020 at 14:41 | answer | added | doe | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 6, 2020 at 14:23 | answer | added | Tyler S. Loeper | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 6, 2020 at 8:54 | comment | added | kutschkem | How do you explain humans have such a short lifespan? ;-) But really: This is the way at least Tolkien himself (and may I add, the Bible too) does it - long lifespan was normal, but over time the lifespan decreased. | |
| Feb 5, 2020 at 21:26 | answer | added | user72239 | timeline score: -2 | |
| Feb 5, 2020 at 20:29 | comment | added | puppetsock | Maybe they just survive on dramatons, the quantum unit of fantasy drama. | |
| Feb 5, 2020 at 18:35 | answer | added | Cooper | timeline score: 7 | |
| Feb 5, 2020 at 15:17 | answer | added | Harper - Reinstate Monica | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 5, 2020 at 11:41 | answer | added | vodolaz095 | timeline score: 3 | |
| Feb 5, 2020 at 11:01 | answer | added | internetofmine | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 5, 2020 at 9:17 | answer | added | user72048 | timeline score: 12 | |
| Feb 5, 2020 at 8:04 | answer | added | MartinArrJay | timeline score: 6 | |
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| Feb 5, 2020 at 4:54 | answer | added | dwjohnston | timeline score: 28 | |
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| Feb 4, 2020 at 22:21 | answer | added | Starfish Prime | timeline score: 40 | |
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| Feb 4, 2020 at 22:14 | answer | added | Henry Taylor | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 4, 2020 at 22:10 | comment | added | AlexP | What makes you believe that the long lifespan of elves is an adaptation? Pan-adaptationism is a rather silly view of natural evolution. Maybe it's an accident; maybe it's a side effect of some other adaptive trait. And humans already have very long lives compared to our closest relatives; maybe it was simply more of the whatever same made us live two, three, four times longer than chimpanzees. | |
| Feb 4, 2020 at 22:08 | history | edited | Starfish Prime | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 4, 2020 at 22:05 | history | asked | icewar1908 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |