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Longevity and ageing: appraising the evolutionary consequences of growing old
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Senescence or ageing is an increase in mortality and/or decline in fertility with increasing age. Evolutionary theories predict that ageing or longevity evolves in response to patterns of extrinsic mortality or intrinsic damage. If ageing is viewed as the outcome of the processes of behaviour, growth and reproduction then it should be possible to predict mortality rate. Recent developments have shown that it is now possible to integrate these ecological and physiological processes and predict...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1098/rstb.2005.1738
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- Publisher:
- Royal Society Publishing Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Journal website
- Volume:
- 361
- Issue:
- 1465
- Pages:
- 119-135
- Publication date:
- 2006-01-05
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1471-2970
- URN:
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uuid:899f4369-afef-4574-8032-330e604e3938
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- ora:3796
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- English
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- Royal Society
- Copyright date:
- 2005
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- The full-text of this article is not currently available in ORA, but you may be able to access the article via the publisher copy link on this record page. Citation: Bonsall, M. B. (2006). 'Longevity and ageing: appraising the evolutionary consequences of growing old', Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 361(1465), 119-135. [Available at http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/].
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