Human actuarial aging increases faster when background death rates are lower: A consequence of differential heterogeneity?

Evolution

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 103-114

  Hawkes, Kristen ^a   Smith, Ken R ^a,b   Blevins, James K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Frailty; Gompertz; Mortality rate doubling times; Ricklefs' omega; Strehler Mildvan correlations; Weibull

Indexed keywords

AGING; FILTER; HETEROGENEITY; HUMAN EVOLUTION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MORTALITY; NATURAL SELECTION; SENESCENCE; WEIBULL THEORY;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ACTUARIAL ANALYSIS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY;

EID: 84855287870     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01414.x     Document Type: Article

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