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THE BIOLOGY OF HUMAN LONGEVITY:
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Inflammation, Nutrition, and Aging in the Evolution of Lifespans
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By
Caleb Finch, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Reviews
"Overall, this is a rich and timely book full of facts, figures, ideas and connections. Finch has generously referenced this work with
182 pages of literature citations, so it can also serve as an excellent reference volume. One wonders how he can keep producing such
comprehensive books on so many diverse topics in aging research, and I hope he is not yet finished!"
Huber R. Warner, Associate Dean
for Research University of Minnesota in The Gerontologist, March 2009
"With the coupling of his expertise in neuroscience
and clinical medicine to his keen interests in demography and comparative zoology, Finch arguably remains our most potent synthesizer
of biology and gerontology. Here his writing conveys a sense of urgency not present in his classic Longevity, Senescence, and the Genome....
the intellectual framework Finch provides in it will be intensely stimulating to both experts and newcomers in the field of aging."
-Donna
J. Holmes, Washington State University, in SCIENCE Magazine, Vol 319, 22 Feb 2008
"This is a monumental book, which
reviews and discusses over 3,000 scientific publications on mechanisms of aging and longevity, with special emphasis on the role of inflammation
in senescence and age-related degenerative diseases. The author is an internationally recognized leader in the field of biogerontology,
and his volume could serve as a useful reference book for a wide readership including biomedical scientists, biogerontologists and clinicians
in areas of vascular disease, diabetes, obesity, Alzheimer disease and other neurodegenerative diseases, genetics of aging and longevity,
animal models of aging, anthropology and primatology, evolutionary biology, demography and epidemiology."
-Dr. Leonid Gavrilov and
Natalia S. Gavrilova, Center on Aging, University of Chicago, in Quarterly Review of Biology (March 1, 2008)
"Finch
exemplifies the ideal of thorough scholarship, and we should be grateful for his comprehensive summary of ideas and data that bear upon
the intriguing question of why humans live as long as they do."
-TOM KIRKWOOD, Institute for Ageing and Health, Newcastle University
in Age and Ageing 2009; 38: 636?637
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