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Some Aspects of Human Life History
“There are two things a person is powerless to change, the moment of their birth and the moment of their death” Ancient Voudoun proverb
The Human Life Cycle
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The Human Life Cycle
The Eel Life Cycle
A Comparison of the Human and Eel Live Cycles
Life History, an Evolutionary Axiom
Fecundity
Maximum Fecundity
Aging
Human Life Expectancy
Senescence
The Concept of a Finite Life Span
A Model of Aging (from Gavrilov and Gavrilova, 1991)
Some Characteristics of Aging
Progressive Deteriorative Changes
Why Do We Age?
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Stochastic Theories:
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Negative Pleiotropy Hypothesis
Death
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Author: Alan Molumby
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