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“You can open up a centenarian's brain, and you'll see some areas that look like …” — S. Jay Olshansky
You can open up a centenarian's brain, and you'll see some areas that look like that of a 50-year-old or of a 110-year-old. You can have variation in the basic process of aging, called senescence, in different parts of the same body.
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