What Is Life? 2nd Edition by Jay Phelan

Exercise 11

The death rate of organisms in a population exhibiting a type III survivorship curve is:
A) unrelated to age.
B) usually correlated with density-independent causes.
C) higher in the post-reproductive than in the pre-reproductive years.
D) lower after the organisms survive beyond the earliest age groups.
E) more or less constant throughout their lives.