Vital rates from the action of mutation accumulation

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2008-08-27

arxiv.org/abs/0808.3622v2

Biology

Quantitative Biology

Populations and Evolution

17 pages, 7 figures

Scientific paper

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 explanations of Gompertz hazards and mortality plateaus, and use them to explore the possibility of melding evolutionary and functional models of aging.

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