How Men Age: What Evolution Reveals about Male Health and Mortality - Couverture rigide

Bribiescas, Richard G.

 
9780691160634: How Men Age: What Evolution Reveals about Male Health and Mortality
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ISBN 10 : 0691160635 ISBN 13 : 9780691160634
Editeur : Princeton University Press, 2016

Synopsis

A groundbreaking book that examines all aspects of male aging through an evolutionary lens

While the health of aging men has been a focus of biomedical research for years, evolutionary biology has not been part of the conversation--until now. How Men Age is the first book to explore how natural selection has shaped male aging, how evolutionary theory can inform our understanding of male health and well-being, and how older men may have contributed to the evolution of some of the very traits that make us human.

In this informative and entertaining book, renowned biological anthropologist Richard Bribiescas looks at all aspects of male aging through an evolutionary lens. He describes how the challenges males faced in their evolutionary past influenced how they age today, and shows how this unique evolutionary history helps explain common aspects of male aging such as prostate disease, loss of muscle mass, changes in testosterone levels, increases in fat, erectile dysfunction, baldness, and shorter life spans than women. Bribiescas reveals how many of the physical and behavioral changes that we negatively associate with male aging may have actually facilitated the emergence of positive traits that have helped make humans so successful as a species, including parenting, long life spans, and high fertility.

Popular science at its most compelling, How Men Age provides new perspectives on the aging process in men and how we became human, and also explores future challenges for human evolution--and the important role older men might play in them.

-- "Harvard Magazine"

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À propos de l?auteur

Richard G. Bribiescas is professor of anthropology and ecology and evolutionary biology at Yale University, where he also serves as deputy provost for faculty development and diversity.

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Éditeur
Princeton University Press
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0691160635
ISBN 13 
9780691160634
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
192
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780691180915: How Men Age: What Evolution Reveals About Male Health and Mortality

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0691180911 ISBN 13 :  9780691180915
Editeur : Princeton University Press, 2018
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