Does aging stop?

Mueller, Laurence D., 1951-

Does aging stop? [online resource] / Laurence D. Mueller, Casandra L. Rauser, and Michael R. Rose. - New York : Oxford University Press, c2011. - xviii, 204 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Oxford scholarship online biology

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Discovery of late life -- Late life is predicted by Hamiltonian evolutionary theory -- Late-life mortality and fecundity plateaus evolve -- Genetics of late life involve antagonistic pleiotropy -- Demography of late life with lifelong heterogeneity -- Evolution of lifelong heterogeneity -- Experimental tests of lifelong heterogeneity -- Death spirals -- Physiology of late life -- Late life in human populations -- Aging stops : late life, evolutionary biology, and gerontology.

9780199754229 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0199754225 (hardcover : alk. paper)


Aging.
Human evolution.
Longevity.
Mortality.
Aging--genetics.
Aging--physiology.
Biological Evolution.
Demography.
Longevity.

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