Why are babies born young? This sounds like an odd question. People would say "of course babies are born young". However, this goes to the core of the question of human (or animal) development. Why is it that as time passes people develop initially through puberty and then for women through menopause and more generally getting diseases such as sarcopenia, osteoporosis, diabetes and cancer, but most of the time babies start showing no signs of this. Lots of research into this has happened over the years and now I think it is clear why this is. It raises some interesting questions. Biological youth is about how well a cell functions. Cells that are old in a biological sense don't work that well. One of the ways in which cells stop working is they fail to produce the full range of proteins. Generally the proteins that are produced from longer genes stop being produced. The reason for this relates to how the Genes work (the Genome). Because the genome is not gettin
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Quite. I fully agree with your sentiments that people rarely vote LibDem for positive reasons.
And that's why so much LibDem election material misrepresents other candidates views and opinions; it's all done to increase voter's unhappiness with those decent politicans who put the interests of their constituents above personal political ambition in order to bolster up the "anti" vote and increase the chances of getting a LibDem elected.
Thank you for your succinct explanation of where so much LibDem support actually comes from.
Where I come from (Northern Ireland), there used to be pacts between the two major Unionist parties in particular seats to avoid the Unionist vote being split.
Respect would better backing the Lib Dems in certain seats, and focusing their efforts on seat they can actually win.