ArticleTrends in ecology & evolution2020
Density Dependence, Senescence, and Williams' Hypothesis.
Article in Trends in ecology & evolution, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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10 citing papers in PubMed.
- Timing of mortality during development alters the evolution of aging.BMC ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- The pace and shape of ant ageing.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2025Review
- Poor hypotheses and research waste in biology: learning from a theory crisis in psychology.BMC biology · 2025Review
- The evolution of ageing: classic theories and emerging ideas.Biogerontology · 2024Review
- Is Aging an Inevitable Characteristic of Organic Life or an Evolutionary Adaptation?Biochemistry. Biokhimiia · 2022Review
- Multigenerational downregulation of insulin/IGF-1 signaling in adulthood improves lineage survival, reproduction, and fitness in Caenorhabditis elegans supporting the developmental theory of ageing.Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2022Article
- The selection force weakens with age because ageing evolves and not vice versa.Nature communications · 2022Article
- The cecal appendix is correlated with greater maximal longevity in mammals.Journal of anatomy · 2021Article
- Senescence: why and where selection gradients might not decline with age.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Predation has small, short-term, and in certain conditions random effects on the evolution of aging.BMC ecology and evolution · 2021Article
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