Title: Vital rates from the action of mutation accumulation
Author: Kenneth W. Wachter and David R. Steinsaltz and Steven N. Evans
Abstract: New models for evolutionary processes of mutation 
accumulation allow hypotheses about the age-specificity 
of mutational effects to be translated into predictions 
of heterogeneous population hazard functions.  
We apply these models to questions in the biodemography
of longevity, including proposed explanations of Gompertz hazards
and mortality plateaus, and use them to explore
the possibility of melding evolutionary and functional
models of aging.
Date: August 2008