Inevitable Aging?

Name: Inevitable Aging?
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Contributions to Evolutionary-Demographic Theory

Autor: Annette Baudisch

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The theoretical results in this monograph indicate that life provides alternative strategies to agin...

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Autor

Annette Baudisch

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

2010

Pagini

170

EAN

9783642095344

ISBN

3642095348

Enbook ID

01654422

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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG

Greutate

302

Dimensiuni

155 x 235 x 11

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The theoretical results in this monograph indicate that life provides alternative strategies to aging. The groundbreaking findings open a completely new field of research. The author gets away from the human centered vision of life showing that aging in any organism does not necessarily correspond to deterioration and senescence. The central insight of this monograph is: to deeply understand why some species age it is necessary to understand why other species do not.Honored by the Max Planck Society with the Otto Hahn Medal 2007 for outstanding scientific achievements§Aging is inevitable: this is gerontological dogma. And humans do inevitably grow old, which is probably why it seems so unlikely to us that other forms of life could escape aging. Escaping aging is not escaping death. Death is an inherent part of life, and it can strike any time. But the question is whether death necessarily becomes more likely as life proceeds. And it does not. The theoretical results in this monograph indicate that life provides alternative strategies. While some organisms will deteriorate over adult ages, for others mortality appears to fall or remain constant, at least over an extended period of life after reproductive maturity. This is empirically observed especially for species that keep on growing during adult ages. Perhaps the diversity of aging matches the diversity of life. My thesis, the central insight of this monograph, is: to deeply understand why some species age it is necessary to understand why other species do not.

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