Time of Our Lives

First published in 1999, Kirkwood explores the science of ageing, looking at the subject from a variety of perspectives such as evolutionary, social, psychological and physiological. He concludes with a short story showing what society could be like far in the future when most of the symptoms have been conquered.

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In this text, Thomas Kirkwood examines closely why we age, how human ageing compares to that of other animal species, what the menopause is for, why our memories fail as we get older and whether cancer is inevitable. Looking at the subject from a variety of perspectives, the book also projects us hundreds of years into a future where most of the symptoms of ageing have been conquered - and shows us what society could be like.