India, Feb. 17 -- Global warming tips century-old 'Rate of Living' theory on lifespan

For more than a century, aging has been explained by the rate of metabolism - the faster the body functions and the sooner it reproduces, the shorter the lifespan. But is it so?

Researchers from the Queen's University Belfast and Tel Aviv University found reasons to doubt the 'Rate of Living' theory: They didn't find any correlation between the rate of living and lifespan.

Their expansive sample study rather found a "huge" impact of global warming on the life expectancy of cold-blooded species such as reptiles and amphibians. A warmer climate indeed shortened the lifespan of such species, pushing them towards faster extinction.

Researchers from the t...