PDR SUPPLEMENTS
Life Span: Evolutionary, Ecological, and Demographic Perspectives
James R. Carey and Shripad Tuljapurkar (eds.)

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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