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Tom Kirkwood

Time of Our Lives

The Science of Human Aging

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By the year 2050 one in five of the world's population will be 65 or older, a fact which presages profound medical, biological, philosophical, and political changes in the coming century. In Time of Our Lives, Tom Kirkwood draws on more than twenty years of research to make sense of the evolution of aging, to explain how aging occurs, and to answer fundamental questions like why women live longer than men. He shows that we age because our genes, evolving at a time when life was nasty, brutish, and short, placed little priority on the long-term maintenance of our bodies. With such knowledge, along with new insights from genome research, we can… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-0-19-535000-5
  • EAN: 9780195350005
  • Produktnummer: 13860346
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Masse: 13'820 KB
  • Abbildungen: 7 line illus

Über den Autor


Tom Kirkwood is Professor of Biological Gerontology at the University of Manchester and Director of the Manchester-Newcastle Joint Center on Aging. He is a member of several international editorial boards and scientific committees, an adviser to the World Health Organization, and winner of the Heinz Karger Prize on cellular aging. Mr. Kirkwood lives in Manchester, England.

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