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Does senescence give rise to disease?
Mechanisms of ageing and development - 1 Dec 2008
Carnes Bruce A, Staats David O, Sonntag William E
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The distinctions between senescence and disease are blurred in the literature of evolutionary biology, biodemography, biogerontology and medicine. Theories of senescence that have emerged over the past several decades are based on the concepts that organisms are a byproduct of imperfect structural designs built with imperfect materials and maintained by imperfect processes. Senescence is a complex mixture of...
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