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10 - Explaining Extraordinary Life Spans

The Proximate and Ultimate Causes of Differential Life Span in Social Insects

from Part II - Senescence in Animals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 March 2017

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Eric Lucas  and
Laurent Keller
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Richard P. Shefferson ,
Owen R. Jones  and
Roberto Salguero-Gómez
Richard P. Shefferson
Affiliation:
University of Tokyo
Owen R. Jones
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University of Southern Denmark
Roberto Salguero-Gómez
Affiliation:
University of Sheffield
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The Evolution of Senescence in the Tree of Life , pp. 198 - 219
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