Inevitable Aging? Contributions to Evolutionary-Demographic Theory /

• Main Author: Baudisch, Annette (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008.
• Series: Demographic Research Monographs,
• Subjects: Medicine.; Evolutionary biology.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Population.; Aging.; Demography.; Economics.; Population Economics.; Medicine/Public Health, general.; Evolutionary Biology.; Applications of Mathematics.

Honored by the Max Planck Society with the Otto Hahn Medal 2007 for outstanding scientific achievements Aging is inevitable: this is gerontological dogma. And humans do inevitably grow old, which is probably why it seems so unlikely to us that other forms of life could escape aging. Escaping aging i...

Table of Contents:

• Hamilton
• Hamilton’s Indicators of the Force of Selection
• Further Challenges
• Optimization Models
• Optimization Models Based on Size
• An Optimization Model Based on Vitality
• Directions for Research.