Ageing: A Biomedical PerspectiveThis definitive reference describes the evolutionary basis of ageing and the recent connections between biochemical damage and pathologies--the central theme being DNA errors, their detection and repair. Presents an in-depth study of ageing as a problem of genes and environment, as a loss of systems precision, as increased disease and as a repairable defect. |
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Taub | 1 |
Natural selection and the evolution | 20 |
Obstacles to progress | 31 |
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