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  "content_md": "> It re­cently oc­curred to my col­league Drew Steen and I that we need a word to de­scribe or­gan­isms that have adapted to live for a mil­lion (I mean, maybe?) years, es­pe­cially since the fact that their lifes­pans are this long has to re­main a hy­poth­e­sis, so we need to be able to talk about them as we test it. We came up with aeonophiles. It means that they love long time pe­ri­ods. It seems hard to pro­nounce, but it's ee-ohn-oh-files. Like some­one who loves wine, but with an ex­tra syl­la­ble. I don't know for cer­tain that cells can ac­tu­ally achieve this feat of liv­ing for a mil­lion years, while slowly re­plac­ing bro­ken bits but never di­vid­ing. But cur­rently, all ev­i­dence sug­gests this is a rea­son­able hy­poth­e­sis.\n\n[Aeonophiles - Karen G. Lloyd ↗](https://smallthingsconsidered.blog/schaechter/2026/09/aeonophiles)",
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