...F.A. Lints A rereading of The Rate of Living [Pearl, University of London Press, London 1928] shows that Pearl’s thoughts about the meaning of inheritance and heredity, about the relations of between and within populations measurements and about the ways in which life span should be measured...

...Angelos C. Economos The validity of the rate of living theory of aging in mammals has been seriously questioned over the last two decades because it does not account for the life span of many mammalian species. However, though this concept is an oversimplification and inapplicable in general...