Human Senescence: Evolutionary and Biocultural Perspectives

by Douglas E. Crews

Book Overview

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 is a text which 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052118231X
• ISBN13: 9780521182317
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"