Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Ageing as a consequence of natural selection
- Genetic information in ageing cells
- Insects as models for testing theories of ageing
- Human cell culture systems in the study of ageing
- Estimation of biological maturity in the older child
- Biological age assessment in adulthood
- Skeletal age and palaeodemography
- Cell death and the loss of structural units of organs
- The prospects for mortality decline and consequent changes in age structure of the population
- Where do old people come from? An evaluation of American population projections
- Age structure of Soviet population in the Caucasus: facts and myths
- The health of an ageing population
- Can we tell our age from our biochemistry?
- Dietary manipulation of ageing: an animal model
- Customary physical activity in the elderly
- Effects of ageing on human homeostasis
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 August 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Ageing as a consequence of natural selection
- Genetic information in ageing cells
- Insects as models for testing theories of ageing
- Human cell culture systems in the study of ageing
- Estimation of biological maturity in the older child
- Biological age assessment in adulthood
- Skeletal age and palaeodemography
- Cell death and the loss of structural units of organs
- The prospects for mortality decline and consequent changes in age structure of the population
- Where do old people come from? An evaluation of American population projections
- Age structure of Soviet population in the Caucasus: facts and myths
- The health of an ageing population
- Can we tell our age from our biochemistry?
- Dietary manipulation of ageing: an animal model
- Customary physical activity in the elderly
- Effects of ageing on human homeostasis
- Index
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- The Biology of Human Ageing , pp. i - ivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1986