Many books on ageing attempt to cover the whole field of
gerontology. However, since gerontology is now such a diversified
and rapidly expanding subject, the results of such attempts tend to
be either incomprehensible compendia or encyc10pedias of
disheartening size. The present book aims to be both more modest
and more ambitious. It focuses on a single object (Drosophila), but
attempts to off er a synthesis of all the gerontological work that
has been done on it. It also aims to show the extent to which this
work has led to an understanding of the biological phenomena of
ageing, longevity, senescence and death in higher organisms,
inc1uding man. Finally it attempts, on the basis of current
knowledge, to mark out the paths that the next generation of
researchers will most probably follow. Drosophila has been used as
a model organism to advance our basic knowledge of the fundamentals
of genetics and gerontology. It may be noted that the pioneering
work on the genetics of ageing, which used Drosophila, began very
early in this century, within the first decade of the rediscovery
of Mendel's laws.
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