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Longevity and the drift barrier: Bridging the gap between Medawar and Hamilton

Most organisms have finite life spans. The maximum life span of mammals, for example, is at most some years, decades, or centuries. Why not thousands of years or more? Can we explain and predict maximum life spans theoretically, based on other traits of organisms and associated ecological constraint...

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Autor principal: Lehtonen, Jussi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7403686/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32774886
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/evl3.173