The moulding of senescence by natural selection.

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• Publication year

  1966

• Venue

  Journal of Theoretical Biology

• Publication date

  1966-09-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Philosophy

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/0022-5193(66)90184-6PMID 6015424
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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