title: Aging: evolution of life span revisited.
abstract: A new study reports that high rates of extrinsic mortality can lead to the evolution of a longer life - a pattern opposite to that expected under the classic predictions of the evolutionary theory of aging.
authors.affiliation: School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, 3800 Victoria, Australia. damian.dowling@monash.edu
authors.forename: Damian K
authors.initials: DK
authors.lastname: Dowling
mesh_terms: D000375:Aging / Q000235:genetics* / Q000502:physiology*; D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D056084:Genetic Fitness; D011157:Population Dynamics; D012641:Selection, Genetic