Abstract
Aging, precisely defined as “increasing mortality with increasing chronological age in populations in the wild” (Libertini 1988), or shortly as “age-related progressive mortality increase (= fitness decline) in the wild”, has been and is “explained” by a large number of theories (Comfort 1979; Medvedev 1990; Weinert and Timiras 2003; Libertini 2015b).
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