Does aging stop? /

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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, an...

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Oxford scholarship online.
1. Verfasser:
Mueller
Weitere Verfasser:
Rauser, Casandra L., Rose, Michael R., Laurence, D.
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Oxford University Press 2011
Zusammenfassung:
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.
Umfang:
1 online resource (225 p.)
Also issued in print format.
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Description based upon print version of record.
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English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:
0-19-045410-5
9786613303240
1-283-30324-8
0-19-987707-6
Schlagworte:
Aging.
Human evolution.
Longevity.
Mortality.
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