Evolution favours aging in populations with assortative mating and in sexually dimorphic populations
Evolution favours aging in populations with assortative mating and in sexually dimorphic populations
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London: Nature Publishing Group UK
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Since aging seems omnipresent, many authors regard it as an inevitable consequence of the laws of physics. However, recent research has conclusively shown that some organisms do not age, or at least do not age on a scale comparable with other aging organisms. This begets the question why aging evolved in some organisms yet not in others. Here we pr...
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Evolution favours aging in populations with assortative mating and in sexually dimorphic populations
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2045-2322
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2045-2322
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10.1038/s41598-018-34391-x
