To age or not to age

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 271, Issue 1538, 2004, Pages 457-463

  Sozou, Peter D ^a,b   Seymour, Robert M ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ageing; Fertility; Life history strategy; Mortality; Vitality

Indexed keywords

AGING; LIFE HISTORY; NATURAL SELECTION;

AGING; ARTICLE; FERTILITY; FITNESS; HUMAN; LIFE HISTORY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MATURITY; MORTALITY; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SUDDEN DEATH; THEORY;

EID: 1442308461     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2003.2614     Document Type: Article

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