Mortality plateaus and directionality theory

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 268, Issue 1480, 2001, Pages 2029-2037

  Demetrius, L ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Darwinian fitness; Directionality theory; Entropy; Malthusian parameter; Senescence

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; MORTALITY; SENESCENCE; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ARTICLE; DIRECTIONALITY THEORY; ENTROPY; EVOLUTION; FITNESS; MODEL; MORTALITY; PARAMETER; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENESCENCE; THEORY;

EID: 0035823755     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2001.1739     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Evolutionary formalism for products of positive random matrices
2. Mortality rates in a genetically heterogeneous population of C. elegans
3. Slowing of mortality rates at older ages in large medfly cohorts
4. The probability of survival of a mutant gene in an age-structured population
5. Aging: Leveling of the grim reaper
6. Growth rate, population entropy and evolutionary dynamics
7. Directionality principles in thermodynamics and evolution
8. Thermodynamics and evolution
9. The measurement of Darwinian fitness in human populations
10. Evolutionary dynamics in random environments
11. Game theory and evolution: Finite size and absolute fitness measures
12. Sensitivity analysis of fitness parameters: A comparative study
13. Les facteurs endogènes et exogenes dans l'évolution demographique de la France - Une étude empirique
14. Diffusion processes in genetics
15. Natural selection for within-generation variance in offspring numbers
16. The moulding of senescence by natural selection
17. On the probability of fixation of mutant genes in a population
18. Evolutionary theory predicts late-life mortality plateaus
19. Optimality, mutation and the evolution of aging
20. Mortality rates and the evolution of senescence: Why are old age mortality rates so low?
21. A stochastic treatment of rare genes in large populations with overlapping generations
22. Aging and immortality
23. The tails of survival curves
24. A universal pattern of mortality decline in the G7 countries
25. The remarkable improvements in survival at older ages
26. Evolutionary demographic models for mortality plateaus
27. Pleiotropy, natural selection and the evolution of senescence
28. The future of longevity: A demographic perspective
29. The differential equation of the distribution of gene frequencies