Aging in the natural world: Comparative data reveal similar mortality patterns across primates

Science

Volumn 331, Issue 6022, 2011, Pages 1325-1328

  Bronikowski, Anne M ^a   Altmann, Jeanne ^b,c   Brockman, Diane K ^d   Cords, Marina ^e   Fedigan, Linda M ^f   Pusey, Anne ^g   Stoinski, Tara ^h   Morris, William F ^g   Strier, Karen B ⁱ   Alberts, Susan C ^c,g  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF PRIMATE RESEARCH   (Kenya)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

^e Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^g DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA INTERPRETATION; DATA SET; LONGEVITY; MORTALITY; PHYLOGENETICS; PRIMATE; SENESCENCE; WILD POPULATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFESPAN; LONGEVITY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENESCENCE; SPECIES;

AGING; ANIMALS; ATELINAE; CEBUS; CERCOPITHECUS; FEMALE; GORILLA GORILLA; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONGEVITY; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MORTALITY; PAN TROGLODYTES; PAPIO CYNOCEPHALUS; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STREPSIRHINI;

ANIMALIA; PRIMATES;

EID: 79952527331     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1201571     Document Type: Article

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