"Jim Carey's fine monograph is the first single-authored exposition
on the 'the biodemography of aging' This important new
trans-disciplinary subject seeks to explain the actuarial trends of
aging at all levels of biological mechanisms. Carey draws heavily
from his pioneering studies of medflies that, like humans, show
declining mortality rates at later ages. His medfly gerotron
continues to generate challenging mysteries, such as the bimodal
mortality pattern of infertile flies. The book is rich in its clear
expositions of complex questions in aging and well-designed
illustrations, which I predict will give it a long shelf
life."--Caleb E. Finch, ARCO Professor in the Neurobiology of
Aging, University of Southern California
"This is an important book. It provides a timely critical
account of a fundamental body of work on aging and sets the stage
for a new set of paradigms about senescence generally and human
aging in particular, taking the first serious look at this
development."--Shripad Tuljapurkar, Stanford University and
University of California, Berkeley
"In this book, James Carey summarizes about a dozen years of his
work on medfly demography and its implications. The overarching
themes are important and innovative. And the careful attention to
detail, both biological and statistical, is excellent."--Marc
Mangel, University of California, Santa Cruz
""Longevity" synthesizes a huge body of data collected over a
long period of time, making this work unquestionably without
parallel. Furthermore, "Longevity" is an exceptionally well-written
and thoroughly analyzed treatise on some of the most important
general questions in biodemography."--Thomas B. L. Kirkwood
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