Five years later, with double the demographic data, naked mole-rat mortality rates continue to defy Gompertzian laws by not increasing with age
"Regardless of which evolutionary theory best applies to the natural history of H.glaber and Fukomys mole-rats, their shared (though unequal) defiance of Gompertzian aging demonstrates that exponentially-increasing hazard with advancing age is not a fixed property of mammalian biology. While it seems to be the default, evolutionary mechanisms have managed to dampen or eliminate it when provided with the right selective incentives."
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