Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences· 2015Q1
Deciphering death: a commentary on Gompertz (1825) ‘On the nature of the function expressive of the law of human mortality, and on a new mode of determining the value of life contingencies’
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Benjamin Gompertz's 1825 paper established that age-specific mortality rates increase exponentially over much of the adult human lifespan, a model still relevant for studying the biology of aging.
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