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Longevity, Senescence, and the Genome (The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Mental Health and Development)

hardcover – May 7, 1991
by Finch, Caleb E.
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ISBN-13: 9780226248882 ISBN-10: 0226248887
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Binding
hardcover
Published
May 7, 1991
Weight
3.6 lbs
Dimensions
0.00×0.00×0.00 cm

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Longevity, Senescence, and the Genome (The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Mental Health and Development) by Finch, Caleb E.. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780226248882.

Featuring extensive references, updated for this paperback edition, Longevity, Senescence, and the Genome constitutes a landmark contribution to biomedicine and the evolutionary biology of aging. To enhance gerontologys 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 an original typology of senescence from rapid to gradual to negligible, and he provides the first multiphyletic calculations of mortality rate constants.