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Through the years there have been a great many theories to explain why it is that a person grows old. Each of them has made an important contribution to our understanding of the subject and each has been superseded by other theories as experimental evidence has shown them to be inadequate.
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Curtis, H.J. (1965). The Somatic Mutation Theory of Aging. In: Kastenbaum, R. (eds) Contributions to the Psychobiology of Aging. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-39847-0_6
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