Relaxed selection and mutation accumulation are best studied empirically: reply to Woodley of Menie et al

Ruben C Arslan¹, Kai P Willführ², Emma M Frans^{3

4}, Karin J H Verweij^{5

6}, Paul-Christian Bürkner⁷, Mikko Myrskylä^{2

8

9}, Eckart Voland¹⁰, Catarina Almqvist^{4

11}, Brendan P Zietsch^{6

12}, Lars Penke^{13

14}

Affiliations

¹ Center for Adaptive Rationality, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany ruben.arslan@gmail.com.
² Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, 18057 Rostock, Germany.
³ Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, Oxford OX3 7JX, UK.
⁴ Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden.
⁵ Department of Biological Psychology, VU University, 1081 BT Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
⁶ School of Psychology, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia.
⁷ Department of Psychology, University of Münster, 48149 Münster, Germany.
⁸ Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science, London WC2A 2AE, UK.
⁹ Population Research Unit, University of Helsinki, 00100 Helsinki, Finland.
¹⁰ Department of Biophilosophy, Justus Liebig University Gießen, 35390 Gießen, Germany.
¹¹ Pediatric Allergy and Pulmonology Unit at Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
¹² Genetic Epidemiology, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland 4006, Australia.
¹³ Biological Personality Psychology, Georg Elias Müller Institute of Psychology, Georg August University Göttingen, 37073 Göttingen, Germany.
¹⁴ Leibniz ScienceCampus Primate Cognition, 37073 Göttingen, Germany.

PMID: 29467268
PMCID: PMC5832716
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2018.0092

Comment

Relaxed selection and mutation accumulation are best studied empirically: reply to Woodley of Menie et al

Ruben C Arslan et al. Proc Biol Sci. 2018.

. 2018 Feb 28;285(1873):20180092.

doi: 10.1098/rspb.2018.0092.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Center for Adaptive Rationality, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany ruben.arslan@gmail.com.
² Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, 18057 Rostock, Germany.
³ Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, Oxford OX3 7JX, UK.
⁴ Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden.
⁵ Department of Biological Psychology, VU University, 1081 BT Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
⁶ School of Psychology, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia.
⁷ Department of Psychology, University of Münster, 48149 Münster, Germany.
⁸ Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science, London WC2A 2AE, UK.
⁹ Population Research Unit, University of Helsinki, 00100 Helsinki, Finland.
¹⁰ Department of Biophilosophy, Justus Liebig University Gießen, 35390 Gießen, Germany.
¹¹ Pediatric Allergy and Pulmonology Unit at Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
¹² Genetic Epidemiology, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland 4006, Australia.
¹³ Biological Personality Psychology, Georg Elias Müller Institute of Psychology, Georg August University Göttingen, 37073 Göttingen, Germany.
¹⁴ Leibniz ScienceCampus Primate Cognition, 37073 Göttingen, Germany.

PMID: 29467268
PMCID: PMC5832716
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2018.0092

Erratum in

Correction to: reply to Woodley of Menie et al.
Arslan RC, Willführ KP, Frans EM, Verweij KJH, Bürkner PC, Myrskylä M, Voland E, Almqvist C, Zietsch BP, Penke L. Arslan RC, et al. Proc Biol Sci. 2018 Aug 15;285(1884):20181427. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2018.1427. Proc Biol Sci. 2018. PMID: 30111601 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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Comment on

Older fathers' children have lower evolutionary fitness across four centuries and in four populations.
Arslan RC, Willführ KP, Frans EM, Verweij KJH, Bürkner PC, Myrskylä M, Voland E, Almqvist C, Zietsch BP, Penke L. Arslan RC, et al. Proc Biol Sci. 2017 Sep 13;284(1862):20171562. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2017.1562. Proc Biol Sci. 2017. PMID: 28904145 Free PMC article.
Mutation accumulation is still potentially problematic, despite declining paternal age: a comment on Arslan et al. (2017).
Woodley Of Menie MA, Sarraf MA, Fernandes HBF. Woodley Of Menie MA, et al. Proc Biol Sci. 2018 Feb 28;285(1873):20172511. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2017.2511. Proc Biol Sci. 2018. PMID: 29467263 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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