The age-specific force of natural selection and biodemographic walls of death.
Wachter KW, Evans SN, Steinsaltz D.
Wachter KW, et al. Among authors: steinsaltz d.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2013 Jun 18;110(25):10141-6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1306656110. Epub 2013 May 8.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2013.
PMID: 23657010
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W. D. Hamilton's celebrated formula for the age-specific force of natural selection furnishes predictions for senescent mortality due to mutation accumulation, at the price of reliance on a linear approximation. Applying to Hamilton's setting the full nonlinear demographic …
W. D. Hamilton's celebrated formula for the age-specific force of natural selection furnishes predictions for senescent mortality due …