Neoteny, Prolongation of Youth: From Naked Mole Rats to “Naked Apes” (Humans)
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Neoteny, Prolongation of Youth: From Naked Mole Rats to "Naked Apes" (Humans).
It has been suggested that highly social mammals, such as naked mole rats and humans, are long-lived due to neoteny (the prolongation of youth). In both species, aging cannot operate as a mechanism facilitating natural selection because the pressure of this selection is strongly reduced due to 1) a specific social structure where only the "queen" and her "husband(s)" are involved in reproductio...
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عنوان ژورنال: Physiological Reviews
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0031-9333,1522-1210
DOI: 10.1152/physrev.00040.2015