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The Long Tomorrow: How Advances in Evolutionary Biology Can Help Us Postpone Aging
The Long Tomorrow: How Advances in Evolutionary Biology Can Help Us Postpone Aging
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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 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
Author: Michael R. Rose
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 09/15/2005
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.36h x 6.64w x 0.78d
ISBN: 9780195179392
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/18/2005 pg. 198
Ingram Advance 10/01/2005 pg. 171
Library Journal 10/01/2005 pg. 107
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
Author: Michael R. Rose
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 09/15/2005
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.36h x 6.64w x 0.78d
ISBN: 9780195179392
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/18/2005 pg. 198
Ingram Advance 10/01/2005 pg. 171
Library Journal 10/01/2005 pg. 107
About the Author
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.
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