The long tomorrow : how advances in evolutionary biology can help us postpone aging / Michael R. Rose.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rose, Michael R. (Michael Robertson), 1955-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aging.

Evolution.

Longevity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (189 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The conquest of aging is now within our grasp. It hasn't arrived yet, writes Michael R. Rose, but a scientific juggernaut has started rolling and is picking up speed. A long tomorrow is coming. In The Long Tomorrow, Rose offers us a delightfully written account of the modern science of aging, spiced with intriguing stories of his own career and leavened with the author's engaging sense of humor and rare ability to make contemporary research understandable to nonscientists. The bookranges from Rose's first experiments while a graduate student--counting a million fruit fly eggs, which took 3

Contents:

Contents; Foreword; Preface; 1. The Sphinx and the Rabbi; 2. Maynard Smith's Shirts; 3. Cell Gang; 4. The Force; 5. Goon Show Einstein; 6. Tiny Methuselahs; 7. The Postman Rings Again; 8. Cheshire Cat Cost; 9. Birds and Bees; 10. Deadly Serendipity; 11. One Can't Be Too Rich or Too Thin; 12. Many-Headed Monster; 13. Woody Allen and Superman; 14. Not Even Oppenheimer; 15. The Long Tomorrow; 16. Travels with the Boatman; Acknowledgments and Disclosures; Glossary; Bibliographic Essay; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-029255-5

1-280-84533-3

0-19-803986-7

1-4294-0292-X

OCLC:

476013922