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基本説明
Written by the leading evolutionary biologists, it provides new foundations for the scientific study of aging. Shatters the conventional paradigms and beliefs on which aging research has been based for the last fifty years .
Full 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 three uncomfortable truths. First, aging is not a cumulative physiological process. Second, the fundamental theory that is required to explain, manipulate, and probe the phenomena of aging comes from evolutionary biology. Third, strong-inference experimental strategies for aging must be founded in evolutionary research, not cell or molecular biology.
The result of fifteen years of research bringing together new applications of evolutionary theory, new models for demography, and massive experimentation, Does Aging Stop? advances an entirely new foundation for the scientific study of aging.
Contents
Preface ; Acknowledgments ; 1. Introduction: A Third Phase of Life ; 2. Discovery of Late Life ; 3. Late Life is Predicted by Hamiltonian Evolutionary Theory ; 4. Late-Life Mortality and Fecundity Plateaus Evolve ; 5. Genetics of Late Life involve Antagonistic Pleiotropy ; 6. Demography of Late Life with Lifelong Heterogeneity ; 7. Evolution of Lifelong Heterogeneity ; 8. Experimental Tests of Lifelong Heterogeneity ; 9. Death Spirals ; 10. Physiology of Late Life ; 11. Late Life in Human Populations ; 12. Aging Stops: Late Life, Evolutionary Biology, and Gerontology ; Appendix ; References ; Index
