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The impact of environment on lifespan distribution dynamics

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The environment generates numerous signals that control the lifespan of species living in it, including humans. By approximating survival curves with the Gompertz function and judging by the Strehler-Mildvan correlation (a linear dependence between the Gompertz function parameters), we have constructed 3D surfaces of survival curves in a wide range of controlling parameter values: characteristic species lifespan and cohort death rate. It has turned out that these surfaces have a complex form. In particular, we have shown the nonlinearity of the dependence between such human lifespan distribution parameters as mean lifespan and variance.

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    A. V. Krementsova & N. V. Gorbunova

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Original Russian Text © A.V. Krementsova, N.V. Gorbunova, 2010, published in Avtomatika i Telemekhanika, 2010, No. 8, pp. 121–133.

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Krementsova, A.V., Gorbunova, N.V. The impact of environment on lifespan distribution dynamics. Autom Remote Control 71, 1617–1628 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0005117910080114

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