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Hawkes, Kristen | A reappraisal of grandmothering and natural selection | Kachel et al. [1] conclude from simulations of their agent-based model that fitness benefits from helpful grandmothers do not select for increased longevity. We studied their assumptions and model, ran further simulations and found flaws that are fatal to their test. Here, we explain four problems a... | 2011-01-01 | |
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Hawkes, Kristen | Human actuarial aging increases faster when background death rates are lower: a consequence of differential heterogeneity? | Many analyses of human populations have found that age-specific mortality rates increase faster across most of adulthood when overall mortality levels decline. This contradicts the relationship often expected from Williams' classic hypothesis about the effects of natural selection on the evolution o... | Frailty; Gompertz; Mortality rate doubling times; Ricklefs' omega; Strehler-Mildvan correlations; Weibull | 2011-01-01 |
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Anderson, Richard Bryan | Print on the margins | 2011-06-15 |
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