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The limit to human longevity: an approach through a stress theory of ageing.

Mechanisms of ageing and development - 25 Jun 1996

Parsons P A

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Survival to old age is enhanced by high vitality and resilience associated with substantial physiological and morphological homeostasis. This is underlain by genes for stress resistance, which confer high metabolic efficiency and hence adaptation to the energy costs of the stresses to which free-living populations are exposed. Under the stress theory of ageing, selection for genes for stress resistance is...

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PMID: 8794448
DOI: 10.1016/0047-6374(96)01710-1

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