Variation in actuarial senescence does not reflect life span variation across mammals

Volume: 17, Issue: 9, Pages: e3000432 - e3000432
Published: Sep 13, 2019
Abstract
The concept of actuarial senescence (defined here as the increase in mortality hazards with age) is often confounded with life span duration, which obscures the relative role of age-dependent and age-independent processes in shaping the variation in life span. We use the opportunity afforded by the Species360 database, a collection of individual life span records in captivity, to analyze age-specific mortality patterns in relation to variation...
Paper Details
Title
Variation in actuarial senescence does not reflect life span variation across mammals
Published Date
Sep 13, 2019
Volume
17
Issue
9
Pages
e3000432 - e3000432
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