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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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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Springer US
2016
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5321711/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28280278 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11692-016-9385-4 |