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How ageing is shaped by trade-offs

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  • Annette Baudisch

    (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany)

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The evolution of different life history strategies and thus different ageing patterns essentially depends on the nature of the underlying trade-offs between survival and reproduction. To fully comprehend ageing, we need to understand these trade-offs.

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  • Annette Baudisch, 2009. "How ageing is shaped by trade-offs," MPIDR Working Papers WP-2009-043, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany.
    • Handle: RePEc:dem:wpaper:wp-2009-043
    DOI: 10.4054/MPIDR-WP-2009-043
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    • J1 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics
    • Z0 - Other Special Topics - - General

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