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The concepts concerning the mechanisms of aging changed with the evolution of epistemology. There has been a tendency to look for universal causes, although aging does not evolve identically in living organisms. In some organisms, it is a rapid and spectacular process such as in the opossum, some marsupials and the salmon; it can be slow and progressive as in the elephant and humans, or negligible such as in lobsters, turtles, and some fishes.
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Macieira-Coelho, A. (2002). Historical and Current Concepts of the Mechanisms of Aging. In: Biology of Aging. Progress in Molecular and Subcellular Biology, vol 30. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18994-4_1
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