Human Senescence: Evolutionary and Biocultural Perspectives
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Human Senescence: Evolutionary and Biocultural Perspectives (Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Number Of Pages: 302
Publication Date: 2004-01-12
Sales Rank: 1823425
ISBN / ASIN: 0521571731
EAN: 9780521571739
Binding: Hardcover
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
Studio: Cambridge University Press
Combining anthropological, gerontological and biocultural evidence, this study explores how humans came to grow old as slowly as they do, and what impacts this has had on their health and lives. It is only comparatively recent that humans have developed late-life survival, but much of the research on senescence is based on isolated cells, worms, and fruit flies, which may be only of peripheral relevance to human aging.
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Much current research on the biology of senescence is on cell-lines, nematodes or fruit flies, which may be only of peripheral relevance to the problems encountered in human senescence. Human Senescence reviews the evolutionary biology of human senescence and life span, and the evolutionarily recent development of late-life survival. In examining how human patterns of and varibility in growth and development have altered later life survival probabilities and competencies, how survival during mid-life contributes to senescent dysfunction and alteration, and the possibilities of further extending human life span, it gives a better understanding of how humans came to senesce as slowly as we do. Bringing together gerontological, anthropological and biocultural research, it explores human variation in chronic disease, senescence and life span as outcomes of early life adaptation and the success of humankind’s sociocultural evolution. It will be a benchmark publication for all interested in how and why we age.
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