Natural selection has not eliminated many harmful conditions and nonadaptive characteristics that appear during old age. This is

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Brut [27]

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Natural selection has not eliminated many harmful conditions and nonadaptive characteristics that appear during old age. This is

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Biology

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SashulF [63] · Answer 1 · 2022-01-22T00:24:21+03:00

Answer:

The theory of aging evolution

Explanation:

The theory of aging evolution seeks to investigate the reasons why living beings begin a degeneration process at a certain age, among the various theories proposed is that of <em>Peter Brian Medawar</em> proposed in 1952, who claimed that natural selection avoided these mutations malignant <em>during the reproductive stage</em> to avoid the reduction of the population, however once this stage concluded the selection allowed them to manifest themselves.