The Long Tomorrow: How Advances in Evolutionary Biology Can Help Us Postpone Aging

The Long Tomorrow: How Advances in Evolutionary Biology Can Help Us Postpone Aging
ISBN-10
0195179390
ISBN-13
9780195179392
Category
Family & Relationships
Pages
174
Language
English
Published
2005-09-15
Publisher
Oxford University Press on Demand
Authors
Michael R. Rose, M.D, Professor of Evolutionary Biology Michael R Rose

Description

Equally important, Rose surveys the entire field, offering colorful portraits of many leading scientists and shedding light on research findings from around the world. We learn that rodents given fifteen to forty percent fewer calories live about that much longer, and that volunteers in Biosphere II, who lived on reduced caloric intake for two years, all had improved vital signs. Perhaps most interesting, we discover that aging hits a plateau and stops - at least, it does so in fruit flies."--Jacket.

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