Vital Rates from the Action of Mutation
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Kenneth W. Wachter; David R. Steinsaltz; Steven N. Evans
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Article
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2009
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Springer-Verlag
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English
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New models for evolutionary processes of mutation accumulation allow hypotheses about the age-specificity of mutational effects to be translated into predictions of heterogeneous population hazard functions. We apply these models to questions in the biodemography of longevity, including proposed exp