THE THEORY. “Lotka’s intrinsic rate of natural increase, with respect to an increment to age-specific mortality at an age a. Thus, he obtained a linear approximation for loss in fitness due to any deleterious mutations that raised mortality at an age a. The greater the loss in fitness, the faster should mutant alleles be selected out of a population, and the fewer should be found at equilibrium as recurring mutations balance natural selection.”
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Nigel Fleming
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