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Time of Our Lives

Time of Our Lives

The Science of Human Aging

9780195128246
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Opis
As recent articles about the graying of America suggest, a demographic revolution is well underway. The number of people living into extreme old age is increasing dramatically. By the year 2050 one in five of the worlds population, including the developing countries, will be 65 or older, a fact which presages profound medical, biological, philosophical, and political changes in the coming century. In Time of Our Lives, Tom Kirkwood unfolds some of the deepest mysteries of medical science while demolishing some of the most persistent misconceptions. He overturns the almost universally held belief that aging is either necessary or inevitable-it isnt-and debunks the idea that there exists a death gene that evolved to inhibit population growth. Instead, Kirkwood shows that we age because our genes, evolving at a time when life was nasty, brutish, and short, placed littlepriority on the long-term maintenance of our bodies. With such knowledge, along with new insights from genome research, we can devise ways to target the root causes of aging and of age-related diseases such as Alzheimers and osteoporosis. Expanding his thesis of the disposable soma, developed over twentyyears of research, Kirkwood makes sense of the evolution of aging, explains how aging occurs, and answers fundamental questions like why women live longer than men. He even considers the possibility that human beings will someday have greatly extended life spans or even be free from senescence altogether. Beautifully written by one of the worlds pioneering researchers into the science of aging, Time of Our Lives is a clear, original and, above all, inspiring investigation of a process all of us experience but few of us understand.
Szczegóły produktu
OUP USA
86810
9780195128246
9780195128246

Opis

Rok wydania
2002
Numer wydania
1
Oprawa
twarda
Liczba stron
288
Wymiary (mm)
156 x 235
Waga (g)
562
  • Preface; The Funeral Season; Attitudes to aging; Whats in a name?; Longevity records; The unnecessary nature of aging; Why aging occurs; Cells in crisis; Molecules and mistakes; Organs and orchestras; The cancer connection; Menopause and the big bang; Eat less, live longer; Why do women live longer than men?; The Genie of the Genome; In search of Wonka-Vite; Making more time; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index;
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