This text summarizes the most significant facts and ideas on the phenomenon of finite life span, using an interdisciplinary approach based on quantitative analysis of survival regularities in human populations and in animal models. The survival analysis is shown to be of major significance in tackling a wide range of problems such as: whether life span is programmed or not; whether there is an absolute superior limit for the durtion of life; what is the relative role of social and biological factors for human life span?; why do women live longer than men?; what are the prospects and ways of life span prolongation? This text should be of interest to researchers, graduates and teachers in the fields of biology, gerontology and demography.
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'Nature' wrote: "Good new book on ageing",
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The journal 'Nature' (1991, vol.352, 29 August, pp.767-768) published a review of this book including the following comment: "Good new book on ageing". The published review was written by Dr. Thomas B.L.Kirkwood, Ph.D. who was the head of the Laboratory of Mathematical Biology, National Institute for Medical Research (London, United Kingdom) at that time.
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This book is selected and cited by Encyclopedia Britannica as recommended reference on longevity topic. The book was also reviewed by Nature (1991, 352: 767), British Medical Journal (1992, 305: 431), BioEssays (1993, 15: 359), Quarterly Review of Biology (1993, 68: 92), Population Studies (1992, 46: 366), Population and Development Review (1992, 18: 555 and 1998, 24: 381), Am.J.Epidemiology (1994, 139: 231), Experimental Gerontology (1992, 27: 251), Gerontologist (1991, 31: 707), Human Biology (1992, 64: 630), J.Epidemiology & Community Health (1992, 46: 630), J.Institute of Actuaries (1992, 119: 379), Age and Ageing (1992, 21: 386), Ageing and Society (1991, 11: 509), Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics (1992, 15: 192), Educational Gerontology (1993, 19: 92), Free Radical Biology & Medicine (1992, 12: 331).
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If one analyses the contemporary scientific literature on life span, the exceptional variety of the existing approaches is particularly striking (see ch.1). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
oncological characteristics, entire age interval, life span distribution, heterogeneous population model, life span indexes, mortality phenomena, life span limit, blood cholesterol content, lifetime variability, vitally important structures, demographic life tables, nonspecific vulnerability, years ordinate, life span values, days ordinate, greater life span, laboratory drosophila, biological mortality, determination hypothesis, human life tables, span distributions, calory intake, mean life span, binomial law, maximal age Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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If one analyses the contemporary scientific literature on life span, the exceptional variety of the existing approaches is particularly striking (see ch.1). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
oncological characteristics, entire age interval, life span distribution, heterogeneous population model, life span indexes, mortality phenomena, life span limit, blood cholesterol content, lifetime variability, vitally important structures, demographic life tables, nonspecific vulnerability, years ordinate, life span values, days ordinate, greater life span, laboratory drosophila, biological mortality, determination hypothesis, human life tables, span distributions, calory intake, mean life span, binomial law, maximal age Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Descartes: Discourse On Method by Laurence J. Lafleur on page 21
- Causes of Death by Statistics Canada on page 278
- Free Radicals in Biology. Volume 5 by William A. Pryor in Back Matter
- Radiation and Ageing by P.J. Lindop in Back Matter
- Das Kapital, Gateway Edition (Skeptical Reader) by Karl Marx on page 225
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- Longevity: The Biology and Demography of Life Span by James R. Carey in Back Matter
- Human Senescence: Evolutionary and Biocultural Perspectives (Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology) by Douglas E. Crews in Back Matter
- The Evolution of Death: Why We Are Living Longer (S U N Y Series in Philosophy and Biology) by Stanley Shostak in Back Matter
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