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Why Men Matter: Mating Patterns Drive Evolution of Human Lifespan
Evolutionary theory predicts that senescence, a decline in survival rates with age, is the consequence of stronger selection on alleles that affect fertility or mortality earlier rather than later in life. Hamilton quantified this argument by showing that a rare mutation reducing survival is opposed...
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Public Library of Science
2007
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1949148/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17726515 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0000785 |