Longevity, Senescence, and the Genome (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780226248899)

Featuring extensive references, updated for this paperback edition, Longevity, Senescence, and the Genome constitutes a landmark contribution to biomedicine and the evolutionary biology of aging.

To enhance gerontology's focus on human age-related dysfunctions, Caleb E. Finch provides a comparative review of all the phyla of organisms, broadening gerontology to intersect with behavioral, developmental, evolutionary, and molecular biology. By comparing species that have different developmental and life spans, Finch proposes an original typology of senescence from rapid to gradual to negligible, and he provides the first multiphyletic calculations of mortality rate constants.

Author: Caleb E. Finch
ISBN-10: 0226248895
ISBN-13: 9780226248899
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Language: English
Published: 05/16/1994
Pages: 938
Format: Paperback
Weight: 3.11lbs
Size: 9.42h x 6.62w x 2.01d