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Methuselah's Zoo: What Nature Can Teach Us about Living Longer, Healthier Lives


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Table of Contents:
Preface ix 1 Doctor Dunnet's Fulmar 1 I Longevity in the Air 2 The Origin of Flight 19 3 Pterosaurs: The First Flying Vertebrates 31 4 Birds: the Longest-Lived Dinosaurs 41 5 Bats: The Longest-Lived Mammals 59 II Longevity on the Earth 6 Tortoises and Tuataras: Longevity on Islands 81 7 Queen for a Lifetime 101 8 Tunnels and Caves 113 9 The Behemoths (Elephants) 129 10 Big Brains (Nonhuman Primates) 147 III Longevity in the Sea 11 Urchins, Worms, and Quahogs 177 12 Fishes and Sharks 199 13 Whales Tales 219 IV Human Longevity  14 The Human Longevity Story 245 15 Methuselah's Zoo Moving Forward 269 Appendix 277 Notes 279 Further Reading 289 Index 293

About the Author :
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. Among his many varied jobs before becoming an academic, Austad was a Hollywood lion trainer and a naturalist guide for the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology, traveling to Antarctica, the Galapagos, New Guinea, Ethiopia, Siberia, Mongolia, and elsewhere.

Review :
"For aspiring scientists and health care advocates." — Library Journal “It was refreshing to read Methuselah’s Zoo, the latest book from biologist Steven Austad, who expresses with clarity what we know and what we don’t know about aging.” —Science “I recommend Methuselah’s Zoo . . . a smartly written book . . . an entertaining tour of the whole animal kingdom in all its mad variety. I had no idea I would so enjoy reading about the naked mole rat, or indeed the “human fish”, a type of salamander that lurks in Balkan caves . . . Austad knows more about his subject than anyone on the planet.” —The Telegraph


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780262047098
  • Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 312
  • Sub Title: What Nature Can Teach Us about Living Longer, Healthier Lives
  • ISBN-10: 0262047098
  • Publisher Date: 16 Aug 2022
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Width: 152 mm


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