The age-specific force of natural selection and biodemographic walls of death.

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 model for mutati...

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Main Authors: Wachter, K, Evans, SN, Steinsaltz, D
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2013