Article
The Evolution of Human Ageing Under the Shadow of Demographic Transition
2025-12-04
Abstract excerpt
The demographic transition has the potential to reshape the selective environment acting on the human genome. Here, we apply Hamilton’s force-of-selection framework to demographic schedules from 175 countries spanning 74 years (1950 to 2023). In post-transition populations, we observe an extension-dilution trade-off. The age at which selection intensity halves increased by 1.7 years since 1950, yet peak intensity...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 1a8e89e2-e0f6-5ad8-bdd1-417aa7ed5c28
- DOI
- 10.64898/2025.12.03.691940