Evolutionary biology of aging
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Evolutionary biology of aging
Oxford University Press, c1991
- : pbk
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Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Pharmaceutical Sciences Library, University of Tokyo図書
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Bibliography: p. 187-209
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In this provocative book on the process of growing old, Michael Rose goes right to the heart of the fundamental "unsolved problem" of biology. Why do we grow old? The proposed theory is that to understand aging we must understand its evolution; only then do its taxonomic distribution and its genetic and physiological mechanisms become intelligible. Evidence is produced from the fields of cell biology, physiology, and gerontology.
Table of Contents
- The evolutionary theory of aging
- Observation of aging
- Experimental tests of the evolutionary theory of aging
- Genetic mechanisms form the evolution of aging
- Comparative biology of aging
- An evolutionary perspective on organismal theories of aging
- An evolutionary perspective on cellular and molecular theories of aging
- The future of gerontology.
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