Douglas E. Crews

Human Senescence

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This 2003 text explores why humans, unlike other animals, came to grow old slowly.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 593g
• ISBN-13: 9780521571739
• ISBN-10: 0521571731
• Artikelnr.: 26953353

Autorenporträt

Douglas E. Crews is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and School of Public Health at the Ohio State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Introduction and background
2. Evolutionary and biological theories of senescence
3. Human variation: growth, development, life history and senescence
4. Human variation: chronic diseases, risk factors and senescence
5. Human life span and life extension
6. Discussion and perspectives
References.