Aging

by Caleb E. Finch, Robert E. Ricklefs, Caleb Ellicott Finch

This treatment of human aging draws on biomedical research and the natural history of animals and plants to describe this natural phenomena in detail, helping the reader to understand this complex process. In the aging process of humans and many other species, the authors find some answers to why aging must exist at all. They present contemporary theories of aging and their implications for the prospect of significantly extending the human life span...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0716750562
• ISBN13: 9780716750567
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Scientific American Library
• Length: 209 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.8" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Wonderful book

Wonderful place to start for anyone who has ever wondered why we age and how. Evolutionary treatment is solid. I bought this one to keep.