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The '''reliability theory of aging''' is an attempt to apply the principles of [[reliability theory]] to [[human biology]]. The theory was published in Russian by [[Leonid A. Gavrilov]] and Natalia S. Gavrilova as ''Biologiia prodolzhitelʹnosti zhizni'' in 1986, and in English translation as ''The Biology of Life Span: A Quantitative Approach'' in 1991.{{r|gav|rayl}}

The [[hypothesis]] is based on the unusual [[premise]] that humans are born in a highly defective state. According to the [[mathematical model|model]],{{clarify|date=September 2016}} this is then made worse by environmental and mutational damage; [[Redundancy (engineering)|redundancy]] allows the organism to survive for a while.{{r|ieee}}

==References==