Evolution, mutations, and human longevity: European royal and noble families

Human Biology

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 799-804

  Gavrilova, Natalia S ^a,b   Gavrilov, Leonid A ^a,c   Evdokushkina, Galina N ^b   Semyonova, Victoria G ^b   Gavrilova, Anna L ^a   Evdokushkina, Natalia N ^b   Kushnareva, Yulia E ^c   Kroutko, Vyacheslav N ^b   Andreyev, Alexander Yu ^c  

^a University of Chicago   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Russian Federation)

^c MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Evolutionary theory of aging; Genealogy; Heritability of life span; Human longevity; Mutation accumulation hypothesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032146091     PISSN: 00187143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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