Errors as a primary cause of late-life mortality deceleration and plateaus

Saul Justin Newman

doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.2006776

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Errors as a primary cause of late-life mortality deceleration and plateaus

Saul Justin Newman

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: saul.newman@anu.edu.au

Affiliation Research School of Biology, The Australian National University, Acton, ACT, Australia

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9841-1518

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Errors as a primary cause of late-life mortality deceleration and plateaus

Saul Justin Newman

Published: December 20, 2018
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2006776

About the Authors

Saul Justin Newman

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: saul.newman@anu.edu.au

Affiliation Research School of Biology, The Australian National University, Acton, ACT, Australia

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9841-1518

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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