Abstract
A Monte Carlo simulation of the Partridge-Barton model is presented which in a limiting case gives extreme senescence in the sense of immediate death after sexual maturity.
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Jan, N. Adult survival in Partridge-Barton model of biological aging. J Stat Phys 77, 915–917 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02179469
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02179469