3 papers
cond-mat.stat-mech2003
Should retirement age be coupled to life expectancy ?
J. S. Sa Martins, D. Stauffer
Increasing every year the retirement age by the same amount as the increase of the life expectancy gives roughly stable ratios of the number of retired to working-age people in ind…
cond-mat.stat-mech2000
Computer Simulations for Biological Ageing and Sexual Reproduction
D. Stauffer, P. M. C. de Oliveira, S. Moss de Oliveira +2
The sexual version of the Penna model of biological ageing, simulated since 1996, is compared here with alternative forms of reproduction as well as with models not involving agein…
cond-mat.stat-mech2000
Evolution and Ageing
S. Moss de Oliveira, Domingos Alves, J. S. Sa Martins
The idea of this review is to connect the different models of evolution to those of biological ageing through Darwin's theory. We start with the Eigen model of quasispecies for mic…