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disposable soma theory
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Knowledge graph centered on disposable soma theory with 11 nodes and 21 connections. Top connected: mark-recapture (Sciuridae), Age, state, environment and season dependence of s, reproductive senescence, residual body condition index (Sciuridae), actuarial senescence.
Definition
Theory predicting that if reproduction leads to increased damage accumulation, fast reproducing individuals effectively bring forward their own death, with limited resources allocated among competing systems of self-maintenance and reproduction