Does aging stop? [electronic resource] /
by Mueller, Laurence D; Rauser, Casandra L; Rose, Michael R. (Michael Robertson).
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BookPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011Description: 1 online resource.ISBN: 9780199896714 (ebook) :; 0199896712 (ebook) :.Uniform titles: Oxford scholarship online.Subject(s): Aging | Longevity | Mortality | Human evolutionOnline resources: Oxford scholarship online Also issued in print format.Summary: 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.
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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, and aging research now needs to accept uncomfortable truths.
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