Life span : evolutionary, ecological, and demographic perspectives /
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New York :
Population Council,
2003.
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Table of Contents:
- Life span : a conceptual overview / James R. Carey
- How and why do aging and life span evolve? / Steven Hecht Orzack
- Ecological correlates of life span in populations of large herbivorous mammals / Jean-Michel Gaillard ... [et al.]
- Environment and longevity : the demography of the growth rate / Marc Mangel
- Life span in the light of avian life histories / Robert E. Ricklefs, Alex Scheuerlein
- Life span extension of Drosophila melanogaster : genetic and population studies / Lawrence G. Harshman
- Interspecies differences in the life span distribution : humans versus invertebrates / Shiro Horiuchi
- Embodied capital and the evolutionary economics of the human life span / Hillard Kaplan, Jane Lancaster, Arthur Robson
- Rescaling the life cycle : longevity and proportionality / Ronald Lee, Joshua R. Goldstein
- Survival beyond age 100 : the case of Japan / Jean-Marie Robine, Yasuhiko Saito
- Life course, environmental change, and life span / Jean-Marie Robine
- The world trend in maximum life span / John R. Wilmoth, Jean-Marie Robine
- Post-Darwinian longevity / James W. Vaupel
- Hazard curves and life span prospects / Kenneth W. Wachter.