Methuselah's Zoo
What Nature Can Teach Us about Living Longer, Healthier Lives
$47.42
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
19 September 2023
Summary
Stories of long-lived animal species-from thousand-year-old tubeworms to 400-year-old sharks-and what they might teach us about human health and longevity.
Opossums in the wild don’t make it to the age of three; our pet cats can live for a decade and a half; cicadas live for seventeen years (spending most of them underground). Whales, however, can live for two centuries and tubeworms for several millennia. Meanwhile, human life expectancy tops out around the mid-eighties, with some ou…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262547178 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262547171 |
| Author: | Steven N. Austad |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 19 September 2023 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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About The Author
Steven N. Austad
Steven N. Austad is Distinguished Professor of Biology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the inaugural holder of the UAB Protective Life Endowed Chair in Healthy Aging. He is the author of Why We Age- What Science Is Discovering about the Body’s Journey through Life and Real People Don’t Own Monkeys.
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