The genetics of ageing

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Summary

The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans ages and dies in a few weeks, but humans can live for 100 years or more, which means that over evolutionary time mutations have increased lifespan more than 2,000-fold.

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review
Published
2010-03-24
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Keywords

Ancestor, Caenorhabditis elegans, Biology, Nematode, Evolutionary biology

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