Evolutionary demographic models for mortality plateaus

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 96, Issue 18, 1999, Pages 10544-10547

  Wachter, Kenneth W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; MODEL; MORTALITY; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THEORY;

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EID: 0033621103     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.96.18.10544     Document Type: Article

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