
Chance Development and Aging
Oxford University Press Inc
Published in January 2000
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-0-19-513361-5 (ISBN)
Description
Chance, Development, and Aging analyses a subject that has been largely ignored until now: the sources of individual variations in development and ageing that cannot be attributed to genes or the external environment. And by doing so, this book develops new insight into ageing and the individual. Gathering and scrutinizing evidence from diverse sources, the authors examine those differences in individuals that arise during development and those that might influence outcomes of ageing. Through their research, they pose a new set of questions about the contribution of chance events during development, and although chance variations during development are well known within the sub-fields of developmental biology, there has been little recognition of their affects on variations in adult form and function. Here, the authors confront this issue with a fascinating hypothesis: chance variations in form and function, arising through development, affect individual base-line functions and individual responses to the external environment and so modify outcomes of ageing.
This book will undoubtedly benefit gerontologists, geneticists, reproductive biologists, and physiologists, and it will fascinate all those interested in the outcomes of ageing.
This book will undoubtedly benefit gerontologists, geneticists, reproductive biologists, and physiologists, and it will fascinate all those interested in the outcomes of ageing.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
line ill., 6 Fotos bzw. Rasterbilder
6 halftones, 76 line illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
585 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-513361-5 (9780195133615)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Content
1. Chance and its Outcomes in Aging; 2. Chance and Reproductive Aging; 3. Chance and Pattern Formation; 4. Chance, Cell Fate, and Clonality; 5. Chance in the Developmental Environment; 6. Limits in Determinism