What we call senescence may simply be the inadvertent consequence of surviving beyond the reproductive period. As survival is further extended inevitable declines in physiological function and a proliferation of fatal and nonfatal degenerative diseases that become progressively less amenable to modification would be predicted. (SUMMARY IN FRE AND SPA) (EXCERPT)
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