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Is there a biological consensus about why some species live so much longer than other species? You can sort of understand aging as a matter of the body just wearing out with time. But that doesn't explain why, for instance, dogs go through a similar aging process as humans (gray hair, arthritis, cancer, etc.) decades earlier than humans do. Is the difference the length of our telomeres? Or our pulse rates? Or what?