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Senescence in natural populations of animals: Widespread evidence and its implications for bio-gerontology

That senescence is rarely, if ever, observed in natural populations is an oft-quoted fallacy within bio-gerontology. We identify the roots of this fallacy in the otherwise seminal works of Medawar and Comfort, and explain that under antagonistic pleiotropy or disposable soma explanations for the evo...

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Published in:Ageing Res Rev
Main Authors: Nussey, Daniel H., Froy, Hannah, Lemaitre, Jean-François, Gaillard, Jean-Michel, Austad, Steve N.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 2012
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4246505/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22884974
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.arr.2012.07.004
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