Contents
| Acknowledgments, | ix | |
| Introduction, | xiii | |
| 1 | Aging, Senescence, and Lifespan, | 3 |
| 2 | The Nature of Cellular Senescence and Death, | 21 |
| 3 | The Evolution of Senescence and Death, | 41 |
| 4 | Of Embryos and Worms and Very Old Men: The Developmental Genetics of Senescence and Lifespan, | 59 |
| 5 | Human Genetic Diseases That Mimic the Aging Process, | 73 |
| 6 | Cycling to Senescence, | 95 |
| 7 | Replicative Immortality: Cancer and Aging, | 115 |
| 8 | Caloric Restriction and Maximum Lifespan, | 131 |
| 9 | With Every Breath We Take: Oxidative Stress and Cellular Senescence, | 149 |
| 10 | The Aging Brain, | 169 |
| 11 | A Conditional Benefit, | 189 |
| Bibliography, | 221 | |
| Index, | 229 | |
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Publication information:
Book title: A Means to an End: The Biological Basis of Aging and Death.
Contributors: William R. Clark - Author.
Publisher: Oxford University Press.
Place of publication: New York.
Publication year: 2002.
Page number: Not available.
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