{"product_id":"the-long-tomorrow-how-advances-in-evolutionary-biology-can-help-us-postpone-aging","title":"The Long Tomorrow: How Advances in Evolutionary Biology Can Help Us Postpone Aging","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe conquest of aging is now within our grasp. It hasnt arrived yet  writes Michael R. Rose  but a scientific juggernaut has started rolling and is picking up speed. A long tomorrow is coming. In The Long Tomorrow  Rose offers us a delightfully written account of the modern science of aging  spiced with intriguing stories of his own career and leavened with the authors engaging sense of humor and rare ability to make contemporary research understandable to nonscientists. The book ranges from Roses first experiments while a graduate student--counting a million fruit fly eggs  which took 3 000 hours over the course of a year--to some of his key scientific discoveries. We see how some of his earliest experiments helped demonstrate that \"the force of natural selection\" was key to understanding the aging process--a major breakthrough. Rose describes how he created the well-known Methuselah Flies  fruit flies that live far longer than average. 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. Popular accounts of Roses work have appeared in The New Yorker  Time magazine  and Scientific American  but The Long Tomorrow is the first full account of this exciting new science written for the general reader. \"Among his peers  Rose is considered a brilliantly innovative scientist  who has almost single-handedly brought the evolutionary theory of aging from an abstract notion to one of the most exciting topics in science.\"--Malcolm Gladwell  The New Yorker\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44963156656181,"sku":"ByrdShop_0195179390","price":31.61,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780195179392.jpg?v=1770408056","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-long-tomorrow-how-advances-in-evolutionary-biology-can-help-us-postpone-aging","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}