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English
Noun
attritional mortality (uncountable)
- (archaeology, paleontology) The process by which individuals in a population die off one by one from a variety of causes (rather than in large numbers as part of a single event).[1]
- Antonym: catastrophic mortality
References
- ^ Pat Shipman, Life History of a Fossil, Harvard University Press, 1981.