Longevity : : The Biology and Demography of Life Span /

Longevity : : The Biology and Demography of Life Span / / James R. Carey.

Despite our deep interest in mortality, little is known about why some individuals live to middle age and others to extreme old age. Life span, mortality, and aging present some of the most profound mysteries in biology. In Longevity, James Carey draws on unprecedented data to develop a biological a...

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Carey, James R.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (305 p.) :; 76 line illus. 30 tables.
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Contents --   |t Figures --   |t Tables --   |t Preface and Acknowledgments --   |t Permissions --   |t 1 Introduction --   |t 2. Operational Framework --   |t 3. Mortality Deceleration --   |t 4. Reproduction and Behavior --   |t 5. Mortality Dynamics of Density --   |t 6. Dietary Effects --   |t 7. Linkages between Reproduction and Longevity --   |t 8. General Biodemographic Principles --   |t 9. A General Theory of Longevity --   |t 10. Epilogue: A Conceptual Overview of Life Span --   |t Bibliography --   |t Index 
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520 |a Despite our deep interest in mortality, little is known about why some individuals live to middle age and others to extreme old age. Life span, mortality, and aging present some of the most profound mysteries in biology. In Longevity, James Carey draws on unprecedented data to develop a biological and demographic framework for identifying the key factors that govern aging, life span, and mortality in humans and other animals. Carey presents the results of a monumental, twelve-year, National Institute on Aging-funded research project on the determinants of longevity using data from the life tables of five million Mediterranean fruit flies, the most comprehensive set of life table studies ever on the mortality dynamics of a single species. He interprets the fruit fly data within the context of human aging and the aging process in general to identify the determinants of mortality. Three key themes emerge: the absence of species-specific life span limits, the context-specific nature of the mortality rate, and biodemographic linkages between longevity and reproduction. A powerful foundation for the emerging field of biodemography and a rich framework for considering the future of human life span, Longevity will be an indispensable resource for readers from a range of fields including population biology, demography, gerontology, ecology, evolutionary biology, and medical research. 
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653 |a Biomedicine. 
653 |a Brain size. 
653 |a Centenarian. 
653 |a Ceratitis capitata. 
653 |a Ceteris paribus. 
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653 |a Correlation coefficient. 
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653 |a Demography. 
653 |a Disease. 
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653 |a Ecology. 
653 |a Egg as food. 
653 |a Emergence. 
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653 |a Estimation. 
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653 |a Homo sapiens. 
653 |a Housefly. 
653 |a Hydrolysate. 
653 |a Insect. 
653 |a Invertebrate. 
653 |a James Vaupel. 
653 |a Jeanne Calment. 
653 |a Kin selection. 
653 |a Larva. 
653 |a Late-life mortality deceleration. 
653 |a Leveling (philosophy). 
653 |a Life expectancy. 
653 |a Life history theory. 
653 |a Life table. 
653 |a Logarithm. 
653 |a Longevity. 
653 |a Macronucleus. 
653 |a Mammal. 
653 |a Mating. 
653 |a Maximum life span. 
653 |a Menopause. 
653 |a Middle age. 
653 |a Model organism. 
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653 |a Multicellular organism. 
653 |a Natural selection. 
653 |a Nematode. 
653 |a Nutrient. 
653 |a Nutrition. 
653 |a Offspring. 
653 |a Old age. 
653 |a Opportunity cost. 
653 |a Organism. 
653 |a Oviparity. 
653 |a Parental investment. 
653 |a Probability. 
653 |a Protein. 
653 |a Quality of life. 
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653 |a Rodent. 
653 |a Sampling error. 
653 |a Senescence. 
653 |a Sex differences in humans. 
653 |a Sex ratio. 
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653 |a Sexual maturity. 
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653 |a Shoaling and schooling. 
653 |a Sociality. 
653 |a Species. 
653 |a Standard deviation. 
653 |a Survival rate. 
653 |a Trade-off. 
653 |a Vertebrate. 
653 |a Year. 
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