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Aging is a group-selected adaptation : theory, evidence, and medical implications / Josh Mitteldorf.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group, [2017]Description: xxiv, 219 pages : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781498715287 (hardback : alk. paper)
Subject(s): NLM classification:
  • WT 104
Contents:
Hormesis -- The diverse demography of aging -- Aging is not caused by accumulated damage -- Three prevailing theories and their failings -- Aging is very old -- Evolving population control -- How might aging have evolved as an adaptation? -- Reforming evolutionary theory -- A new paradigm for medical research.
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"A Science Publishers book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Hormesis -- The diverse demography of aging -- Aging is not caused by accumulated damage -- Three prevailing theories and their failings -- Aging is very old -- Evolving population control -- How might aging have evolved as an adaptation? -- Reforming evolutionary theory -- A new paradigm for medical research.

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