Explaining the optimality of U-shaped age-specific mortality
- 31 March 2008
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in Theoretical Population Biology
- Vol. 73 (2) , 171-180
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tpb.2007.11.005
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