Longevity, Senescence and the Genome
Longevity, Senescence and the Genome
ISBN: 9780226248899
出版社: Univ of Chicago Pr
出版年: 1994-5
页数: 938
定价: $ 79.10
装帧: Pap
内容简介
Featuring extensive references, updated for this paperback edition, "Longevity, Senescence, and the Genome" constitutes a contribution to biomedicine and the evolutionary biology of ageing. 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 a typology of senescence from rapid to gradual to negligible, and he provides the first multiphyletic calculations of mortality rate constants.