The Illusion of Invariant Quantities in Life Histories

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• Publication year

  2005

• Venue

  Science

• Publication date

  2005-08-19

• Fields of study

  Biology, Mathematics, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1126/SCIENCE.1114488PMID 16109879
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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