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Author: Raven, Peter
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Todescribe: The significance of survivorship curve of an original population.

Introduction: Survivorship is the percentage of an original population that survive to a given age. Survivorship curve is a graph that represents the proportion of individuals surviving to each period for a given species or group. It shows a roughly constant mortality rate for the species throughout its entire life.

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