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The Long Tomorrow - How Advances in Evolutionary Biology Can Help Us Postpone Aging (Hardcover, New)
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The Long Tomorrow - How Advances in Evolutionary Biology Can Help Us Postpone Aging (Hardcover, New)
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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
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