This document pertains to the academic book "Human Senescence" by Douglas E. Crews. This work is categorized as a Life Sciences - Biology publication and serves as an academic book. It is intended for a review of human senescence and lifespan, covering evolutionary biology, gerontology, anthropology, biocultural research, and chronic disease. The book integrates research from gerontology, anthropology, and biocultural studies, offering insights into the evolutionary biology of senescence, human lifespan evolution, and late-life survival.
This manual, presented in English and formatted as an encrypted PDF with 302 pages, is designed to provide comprehensive information on the subject matter. It delves into the evolutionary aspects of senescence, the impact of growth and development on later life, midlife survival, and potential life span extensions. The text also explores sociocultural evolution and senescence, human variation in chronic disease, and draws comparisons to non-human models. Its purpose is to serve as a detailed reference for researchers and students in the fields of biology, gerontology, anthropology, and related disciplines, offering a thorough examination of human aging processes.
Much research on the biology of senescence is on cell-lines, nematodes or fruit flies, that are only of peripheral relevance to the problems encountered in humans. Human Senescence reviews the evolutionary biology of human senescence and life span, and the evolutionarily recent development of late-life survival. It examines how human patterns of and variability in growth and development have altered later life survival probabilities and competencies, and how survival during mid-life contributes to senescent dysfunction and alteration. Discussing possibilities of further extending human life span, it gives a better understanding of how humans came to senesce as slowly as we do over our lifespan. 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.
Author: Crews, Douglas E.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Illustration: N
Language: ENG
Title: Human Senescence
Pages: 00302 (Encrypted PDF)
On Sale: 1999-12-10
SKU-13/ISBN: 9780521571739
Category: Science : Life Sciences - Biology
Much research on the biology of senescence is on cell-lines, nematodes or fruit flies, that are only of peripheral relevance to the problems encountered in humans. Human Senescence reviews the evolutionary biology of human senescence and life span, and the evolutionarily recent development of late-life survival. It examines how human patterns of and variability in growth and development have altered later life survival probabilities and competencies, and how survival during mid-life contributes to senescent dysfunction and alteration. Discussing possibilities of further extending human life span, it gives a better understanding of how humans came to senesce as slowly as we do over our lifespan. 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.
Author: Crews, Douglas E.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Illustration: N
Language: ENG
Title: Human Senescence
Pages: 00302 (Encrypted PDF)
On Sale: 1999-12-10
SKU-13/ISBN: 9780521571739
Category: Science : Life Sciences - Biology
