The Long Tomorrow
Autor Michael R. Roseen Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 aug 2005
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 book ranges from Rose's first experiments while a graduate student--counting a million fruit fly eggs, which took 3,000 hours over the course of a year--to some of his key scientific discoveries. We see how some of his earliest experiments helped demonstrate that "the force of natural selection" was key to understanding the aging process--a major breakthrough. Rose describes how he created the well-known Methuselah Flies, fruit flies that live far longer than average. Equally important, Rose surveys the entire field, offering colorful portraits of many leading scientists and shedding light on research findings from around the world. We learn that rodents given fifteen to forty percent fewer calories live about that much longer, and that volunteers in Biosphere II, who lived on reduced caloric intake for two years, all had improved vital signs. Perhaps most interesting, we discover that aging hits a plateau and stops.
Popular accounts of Rose's work have appeared in The New Yorker, Time magazine, and Scientific American, but The Long Tomorrow is the first full account of this exciting new science written for the general reader.
"Among his peers, Rose is considered a brilliantly innovative scientist, who has almost single-handedly brought the evolutionary theory of aging from an abstract notion to one of the most exciting topics in science."--Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780195179392
ISBN-10: 0195179390
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 169 x 238 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
ISBN-10: 0195179390
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 169 x 238 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Descriere
Rose offers a delightfully written account of the modern science of aging, spiced with intriguing stories of his own career and leavened with his engaging sense of humor and rare ability to make contemporary research understandable to nonscientists.
Notă biografică
Michael R. Rose is Professor of Evolutionary Biology at the University of California at Irvine and is Director of the University of California Intercampus Research Program on Experimental Evolution.