Biological Anthropology and Aging

Perspectives on Human Variation Over the Life Span

Douglas E. Crews, Ralph M. Garruto (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

472 Seiten

1994
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-506829-0 (ISBN)

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This volume is designed to explore evolutionary, cross-cultural, physiological, environmental, and pathological influences on variation in human biological ageing. With use of models traditionally unique to anthropological research, contributors to this edited volume approach human biological ageing as a heterogeneous and variable process. An explicit emphasis on evolutionary biology and human variation results in a renewed perspective on human biological ageing as the end result of a set of co-adapted genetic complexes that were associated with successful growth, development, reproduction, and parenting of offspring during our species' evolutionary history. However, while examining human life span and life history parameters as population level phenomena, the book also emphasizes human phenotypic plasticity as the key to understanding human biological ageing. This broad evolutionary perspective on human biological ageing and life history patterns is unique in biological gerontology, a field generally reductionist in method and theory in keeping with current trends in biomedicine.

ForewordP.T. Baker:
Prologue: Human Aging--A Paradigm of Transdisciplinary ResearchD.E.Crews and R.M. Garruto:
PART I: Introduction and Background
1: T.P. Miles and J.A. Brody: Aging as a Worldwide Phenomenon
PART II: Evolutionary Biology of Aging and Senescence
2: J. Wood et al.: Human Population Biology and the Evolution of Human Aging
3: T. Turner and M.L. Weiss: The Genetics of Longevity in Humans
4: S. Katz and D. Armstrong: Cousin Marriage and the X-Chromosome: Evolution of Longevity and Language
PART III: Populations, Environment, and Morbidity
5: C.J. DeRousseau: Primate Gerontology: An Emerging Discipline
6: D.E. Crews and L.M. Gerber: Chronic Degenerative Diseases and Aging
7: P.J. Mayer: Human Immune System Aging
8: M.J. Strong and R.M. Garruto: Neuronal Aging and Age-Related Disorders of the Human Nervous System
9: W. Stini: Nutrition and Aging: Intraindividual Variation
10: C.C. Plato, K.M. Fox and J.D. Tobin: Skeletal Changes in Human Aging
11: S.M. Garn: Fat, Lipid and Blood Pressure Changes in the Adult Years
12: G.D. James and M.A. Pecker: Aging and Blood Pressure
13: C. Beall: Aging and Adaptation to the Environment
PART IV: Methods for Aging Research and Ongoing Programs14: L.J. Brant and C.D. Pearson: Modeling the Variability in Longitudinal Patterns of Aging
15: S.R. Loth and M.Y. Iscan: Morphological Indictors of Skeletal Age
16: P.B. Eveleth: Role of the National Institute on Aging
Epilogue: Human Aging--The Scientific Relevance of Transdisciplinary ApproachesR.M. Garruto and D.E. Crews:

Erscheint lt. Verlag	16.6.1994
Zusatzinfo	halftones, line illustrations, tables
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	162 x 241 mm
Gewicht	968 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Lebenshilfe / Lebensführung
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Geriatrie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-19-506829-7 / 0195068297
ISBN-13	978-0-19-506829-0 / 9780195068290
Zustand	Neuware