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In the visible world, heterogeneity typically refers to the differences that exist among individuals in a defined population. These differences can arise from a variety of sources - biological, behavioral and social. Ever since Darwin, scientists have argued over the biological significance of differences observed at the individual, morphological, physiological, genetic, molecular and structural levels...
For over a century, actuaries and biologists working independently of each other have presented arguments for why total mortality needs to be partitioned into biologically meaningful subcomponents. These mortality partitions tended to overlook genetic diseases that are inherited because the partitions were motivated by a paradigm focused on aging. In this article, we combine and extend the concepts...
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