Research Catalog

Title

Longevity : the biology and demography of life span / James R. Carey.

Author

Carey, James R.

Publication

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2003], ©2003.

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Publisher description

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Details

Description

xxv, 278 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Subject

• Longevity

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-270) and index.

Contents

• 1. Introduction -- 1.1. The Problem -- 1.2. The Epistemological Framework -- 1.3. Importance of Scale -- 1.4. Overarching Themes -- 1.5. Organization of the Book -- 2. Operational Framework -- 2.1. Background -- 2.2. Empirical Methods -- 2.3. Analytical Methods -- 3. Mortality Deceleration -- 3.1. Background -- 3.2. Slowing of Mortality at Older Ages -- 3.3. Implications of Morality Deceleration -- 3.4. Demographic Selection -- 3.5. Sex Differentials -- 4. Reproduction and Behavior -- 4.1. Reproduction and Longevity: Visualizing Linkages -- 4.2. Relationship of Reproduction and Mortality -- 4.3. Cost of Virginity -- 4.4. Supine Behavior - a Predictor of Time-to-death -- 5. Mortality Dynamics of Density -- 5.1. Background -- 5.2. Operational Framework -- 5.3. Mortality Dynamics -- 5.4. Implications -- 6. Dietary Effects -- 6.1. Early Mortality Surge in Protein-deprived Females --
• 6.2. Female Sensitivity Underlies Sex Mortality Differential -- 6.3. Mortality Oscillations Induced by Periodic Starvation -- 7. Linkages between Reproduction and Longevity -- 7.1. Dual Modes of Aging -- 7.2. Reproductive Clock -- 7.3. Food Pulses -- 8. General Biodemographic Principles -- 8.1. Why Biological Data Is Important for Deriving General Principles -- 8.2. Principles of Senescence -- 8.3. Principles of Mortality -- 8.4. Principles of Longevity -- 8.5. Biodemographic Principles and the Human Primate -- 8.6. Biodemography of Human Development, Reproduction, and Genetics -- 8.7. Proximate Determinants of Human Longevity -- 8.8. Longevity Gains Are Self-reinforcing -- 9. A General Theory of Longevity -- 9.1. Comparative Demography of Longevity -- 9.2. Foundational Principles -- 9.3. Model of Longevity Extension -- 9.4. Model Application -- 9.5. Implications of Longevity-oriented Theory --
• 9.6. Human Life Span Extension: A Framework for the Future -- 10. Epilogue: A Conceptual Overview of Life Span -- 10.1. Background -- 10.2. Abstract Perspectives -- 10.3. Death and Extinction -- 10.4. Boundary and Perpetuity -- 10.5. Evolution -- 10.6. Roles of the Elderly -- 10.7. Minimal Life Spans -- 10.8. Absence of Life Span Limits -- 10.9. Humans -- 10.10. Theory of Longevity Extension Social Species: A Self-reinforcing Process -- 10.11. Future -- 10.12. Scientific and Biomedical Determinants -- 10.13. Demographic Ontogeny -- 10.14. Postscript.

ISBN

0691088489

LCCN

2002025294

OCLC

• ocm49386202
• SCSB-4343671

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries