Does aging stop?
By: Laurence D. Mueller, Casandra L. Rauser, and Michael R. Rose
Contributors: Rauser, Casandra L., 1974-; Rose, Michael R. (Michael Robertson), 1955-
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780199754229
Subjects: Aging; Genetics; Biological Evolution; Longevity; Demography; Human evolution; Physiology; Mortality
Description: Does Aging Stop? reveals the most paradoxical finding of recent aging research: the cessation of demographic aging. The authors show that aging stops at the level of the individual organism, and explain why evolution allows this. The implications of this counter-intuitive conclusion are profound, and aging research now needs to accept uncomfortable truths.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Discovery of late life; title: Late life is predicted by Hamiltonian evolutionary theory; title: Late-life mortality and fecundity plateaus evolve; title: Genetics of late life involve antagonistic pleiotropy; title: Demography of late life with lifelong heterogeneity; title: Evolution of lifelong heterogeneity; title: Experimental tests of lifelong heterogeneity; title: Death spirals; title: Physiology of late life; title: Late life in human populations; title: Aging stops : late life, evolutionary biology, and gerontology.