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Aging is a process in which both risk and phenotypic variability have important roles and significant interactions. Other contributions to this volume include examples of age as a determinant of responses to environmental challenges and examples in which variations in longevity are the ultimate consequence of phenotypic variability.
Acknowledgement. The author wishes to thank Dr. Richard L. Sprott, Associate Director, National Institute on Aging who prepared the original abstract for this presentation on aging and functional variability and who provided the author with much helpful discussion.
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Smith, D.W.E. (1988). Variability in Life Span Functional Capacity. In: Woodhead, A.D., Bender, M.A., Leonard, R.C. (eds) Phenotypic Variation in Populations. Basic Life Sciences, vol 43. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5460-4_18
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