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A New Metric of Inclusive Fitness Predicts the Human Mortality Profile

Biological species have evolved characteristic patterns of age-specific mortality across their life spans. If these mortality profiles are shaped by natural selection they should reflect underlying variation in the fitness effect of mortality with age. Direct fitness models, however, do not accurate...

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Autores principales: Newman, Saul J., Easteal, Simon
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4301870/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25607654
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0117019

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