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" Time of our lives : "
Tom Kirkwood.
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BL
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1028061
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b782431
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| Main Entry
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Kirkwood, T. B. L.
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Time of our lives : : the science of human aging /\ Tom Kirkwood.
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| Publication Statement
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Oxford ;New York :: Oxford University Press,, 1999.
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x, 277 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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0195128249
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: 0195139267
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: 9780195128246
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: 9780195139266
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0297842471
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9780297842477
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-267) and index.
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| Contents
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The funeral season -- Attitudes to ageing -- What's in a name? -- Longevity records --The unnecessary nature of ageing -- Why ageing occurs -- Cells in crisis Molecules and mistakes-- Organs and orchestras -- The cancer connection -- Menopause and the big bang -- Eat less, live longer -- Why do Women live longer -- than men? The Genie of the Genome -- In search of Wonka-Vite -- Making more time.
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| Abstract
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"In Time of Our Lives, Tom Kirkwood unfolds some of the deepest mysteries of medical science while demolishing some of the most persistent misconceptions. He overturns the almost universally held belief that aging is either necessary or inevitable - it isn't - and debunks the idea that there exists a "death gene" that evolved to inhibit population growth. Instead, Kirkwood shows that we age because our genes, evolving at a time when life was "nasty, brutish, and short," placed little priority on the long-term maintenance of our bodies. With such knowledge, along with new insights from genome research, we can devise ways to target the root causes of aging and of age-related diseases such as Alzheimer's and osteoporosis. Expanding the thesis of the "disposable soma," developed over twenty years of research, Kirkwood makes sense of the evolution of aging, explains how aging occurs, and answers fundamental questions like why women live longer than men. He even considers the possibility that human beings will someday have greatly extended life spans or even be free from senescence altogether."--Jacket.
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Aging, Popular works.
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Aging, popular works.
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Aging-- physiology, popular works.
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Longevity-- physiology, popular works.
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Aging.
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| Dewey Classification
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612.6/7
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QP86.K52 1999
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WT 104K59t 1999
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