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Diagnosing senescence: inferring evolutionary causes from phenotypic patterns can be misleading.
Proceedings. Biological sciences - 22 Dec 1995
Blarer A, Doebeli M, Stearns S C
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Based on the predictions of two theories for the evolution of senescence, the 'antagonistic pleiotropy' and the 'mutation accumulation' theory, an age-specific increase in mortality and a decrease in fecundity are widely used criteria to diagnose senescence in natural, and laboratory populations. In this study we question the reliability of these criteria. Using a simple model we show that similar phenotypic...
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