Does Aging Stop?

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Laurence D. Mueller (Professor, Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of California, Irvine) Casandra L. Rauser (Assistant Director of Research Development, Assistant Director of Research Development, School of Biological Sciences, University of California, Irvine)

Does Aging Stop?

Laurence D. Mueller (Professor, Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of California, Irvine), Casandra L. Rauser (Assistant Director of Research Development, Assistant Director of Research Development, School of Biological Sciences, University of California, Irvine), Michael R. Rose, M.D. (Professor, Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of California, Irvine)

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Oxford University Press Inc
13 October 2011

Population & demography; Maturation & ageing; Evolution; Genetics (non-medical)

Does Aging Stop? reveals the most paradoxical finding of recent aging research: the cessation of demographic aging. The authors show that aging stops at the level of the individual organism, and explain why evolution allows this. The implications of this counter-intuitive conclusion are profound, and aging research now needs to accept three uncomfortable truths. First, aging is not a cumulative physiological process. Second, the fundamental theory that is required to explain, manipulate, and probe the phenomena of aging comes from evolutionary biology. Third, strong-inference experimental strategies for aging must be founded in evolutionary research, not cell or molecular biology. The result of fifteen years of research bringing together new applications of evolutionary theory, new models for demography, and massive experimentation, Does Aging Stop? advances an entirely new foundation for the scientific study of aging.

By: Laurence D. Mueller (Professor Professor Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology School of Biological Sciences University of California Irvine), Casandra L. Rauser (Assistant Director of Research Development, Assistant Director of Research Development, School of Biological Sciences, University of California, Irvine), Michael R. Rose, M.D. (Professor, Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of California, Irvine)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 232mm, Width: 161mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 480g
ISBN: 9780199754229
ISBN 10: 0199754225
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 13 October 2011
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: A Third Phase of Life 2. Discovery of Late Life 3. Late Life is Predicted by Hamiltonian Evolutionary Theory 4. Late-Life Mortality and Fecundity Plateaus Evolve 5. Genetics of Late Life involve Antagonistic Pleiotropy 6. Demography of Late Life with Lifelong Heterogeneity 7. Evolution of Lifelong Heterogeneity 8. Experimental Tests of Lifelong Heterogeneity 9. Death Spirals 10. Physiology of Late Life 11. Late Life in Human Populations 12. Aging Stops: Late Life, Evolutionary Biology, and Gerontology Appendix References Index

Laurence Mueller is Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Irvine. His research interests are in life-history evolution, aging, and the population genetic aspects of forensic DNA typing. Dr. Mueller is the author of over 100 research papers in these fields as well as two books: Stability in Model Populations and Evolution and Ecology of the Organism. Casandra Rauser is the Assistant Director of Research Development for the School of Biological Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. Michael Rose is Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of Evolutionary Biology of Aging (OUP, 1991), and was awarded the Busse Research Prize by the World Congress of Gerontology in 1997.

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<br> As an attempt to justify the existence of plateaus as direct outcomes of natural selection, the book is as good as it gets. The authors do a thorough job of presenting their ideas, along with the models and data they believe back these ideas up. -- Thomas B. L. Kirkwood, Institute for Ageing & Health, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom<p><br>

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