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Life Span: Evolutionary, Ecological,
and Demographic Perspectives

PDREdited by James R. Carey and Shripad Tuljapurkar

CONTENTS

Preface (PDF)

Acknowledgments (PDF)

Life Span: A Conceptual Overview (PDF)
James R. Carey

How and Why Do Aging and Life Span Evolve? (PDF)
Steven Hecht Orzack

Ecological Correlates of Life Span in Populations of Large Herbivorous Mammals (PDF)
Jean-Michel Gaillard, Anne Loison, Marco Festa-Bianchet, Nigel Gilles Yoccoz, Erling Solberg

Environment and Longevity: The Demography of the Growth Rate (PDF)
Marc Mangel

Life Span in the Light of Avian Life Histories (PDF)
Robert E. Ricklefs, Alex Scheuerlein

Life Span Extension of Drosophila melanogaster: Genetic and Population Studies (PDF)
Lawrence G. Harshman

Interspecies Differences in the Life Span Distribution: Humans versus Invertebrates (PDF)
Shiro Horiuchi

Embodied Capital and the Evolutionary Economics of the Human Life Span (PDF)
Hillard Kaplan, Jane Lancaster, Arthur Robson

Rescaling the Life Cycle: Longevity and Proportionality (PDF)
Ronald Lee, Joshua R. Goldstein

Survival Beyond Age 100: The Case of Japan (PDF)
Jean-Marie Robine, Yasuhiko Saito

Life Course, Environmental Change, and Life Span (PDF)
Jean-Marie Robine

The World Trend in Maximum Life Span (PDF)
John R. Wilmoth, Jean-Marie Robine

Post-Darwinian Longevity (PDF)
James W. Vaupel

Hazard Curves and Life Span Prospects (PDF)
Kenneth W. Wachter

Authors (PDF)

Entire supplement (PDF)

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