Birth-order differences can drive natural selection on aging

Evolution

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 886-892

  Gillespie, Duncan O S ^a,b   Trotter, Meredith V ^a   Krishna Kumar, Siddharth ^a   Tuljapurkar, Shripad D ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Demography; Ecology; Evolution; Inequality; Inheritance; Life history

Indexed keywords

AGING; DEMOGRAPHY; HUMAN EVOLUTION; LIFE HISTORY; NATURAL SELECTION; POPULATION MODELING; REPRODUCTIVE POTENTIAL; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SENESCENCE; SURVIVAL;

AGING; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRTH ORDER; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SELECTION; HUMAN; INEQUALITY; INHERITANCE; LIFE HISTORY; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; SIBLING;

DEMOGRAPHY; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; INEQUALITY; INHERITANCE; LIFE HISTORY;

AGING; BIRTH ORDER; GENETIC FITNESS; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; SELECTION, GENETIC; SIBLINGS;

EID: 84896722919     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/evo.12319     Document Type: Article

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