Does aging stop? /
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Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Carrier Form: | xviii, 204 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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9780199754229 (hardcover : alk. paper) : 0199754225 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
Index Number: | QP86 |
CLC: | R339.34 |
Call Number: | R339.34/M946 |
Contents: | Discovery of late life -- Late life is predicted by Hamiltonian evolutionary theory -- Late-life mortality and fecundity plateaus evolve -- Genetics of late life involve antagonistic pleiotropy -- Demography of late life with lifelong heterogeneity -- Evolution of lifelong heterogeneity -- Experimental tests of lifelong heterogeneity -- Death spirals -- Physiology of late life -- Late life in human populations -- Aging stops : late life, evolutionary biology, and gerontology. |