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The Rarity of Survival to Old Age Does Not Drive the Evolution of Senescence

The evolution of senescence is often explained by arguing that, in nature, few individuals survive to be old and hence it is evolutionarily unimportant what happens to organisms when they are old. A corollary to this idea is that extrinsically imposed mortality, because it reduces the chance of surv...

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Pubblicato in:Evol Biol
Autori principali: Wensink, Maarten J., Caswell, Hal, Baudisch, Annette
Natura: Artigo
Lingua:Inglês
Pubblicazione: Springer US 2016
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Accesso online:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5321711/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28280278
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11692-016-9385-4
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