Does Aging Stop?

by Michael R. Rose, Casandra L. Rauser, Laurence D. Mueller

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 three uncomfortable truths. First, aging is not a cumulative physiological process. Second, the fundamental theory...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199754225
• ISBN13: 9780199754229
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.3"