Ageing: levelling of the grim reaper.
Recent observations of a levelling of the death rate in extreme old age, in both experimental species and humans, are posing difficult problems for evolutionary biologists, in particular about the evolution of the post-reproductive period.
Charlesworth
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Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, Chicago, lllinois 60637, USA.
Partridge
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D000375:Aging; D000818:Animals; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D018740:Genetic Heterogeneity; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D009026:Mortality