It is optimal to be optimistic about survival

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• Publication year

  2012

• Venue

  Biology Letters

• Publication date

  2012-08-23

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Philosophy

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1098/rsbl.2012.0010PMID 22357935PMCID PMC3391451
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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