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How Men Age - What Evolution Reveals about Male Health and Mortality (Paperback)
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How Men Age - What Evolution Reveals about Male Health and Mortality (Paperback)
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A groundbreaking book that examines all aspects of male aging
through an evolutionary lens While the health of aging men has been
a focus of biomedical research for years, evolutionary biology has
not been part of the conversation-until now. How Men Age is the
first book to explore how natural selection has shaped male aging,
how evolutionary theory can inform our understanding of male health
and well-being, and how older men may have contributed to the
evolution of some of the very traits that make us human. In this
informative and entertaining book, renowned biological
anthropologist Richard Bribiescas looks at all aspects of male
aging through an evolutionary lens. He describes how the challenges
males faced in their evolutionary past influenced how they age
today, and shows how this unique evolutionary history helps explain
common aspects of male aging such as prostate disease, loss of
muscle mass, changes in testosterone levels, increases in fat,
erectile dysfunction, baldness, and shorter life spans than women.
Bribiescas reveals how many of the physical and behavioral changes
that we negatively associate with male aging may have actually
facilitated the emergence of positive traits that have helped make
humans so successful as a species, including parenting, long life
spans, and high fertility. Popular science at its most compelling,
How Men Age provides new perspectives on the aging process in men
and how we became human, and also explores future challenges for
human evolution-and the important role older men might play in
them.
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