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Sex, senescence, sources and sinks
2020-01-01
Abstract excerpt
Why do most organisms age, and why do most of them reproduce sexually? Does sex rejuvenate? We review progress that has been made linking theories of senescence with those of sexual reproduction. We show that there is a dearth of theory against the numerous questions waiting to be answered theoretically or empirically: observed senescence patterns are a result of past selection acting on individuals of different a...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 88afae12-19bf-5ba8-8d4c-06d656f9ca61
- DOI
- 10.1111/1365-2435.13462