WHAT GOOD IS IT TO GET OLD

Authors
NUSBAUM NJ
Citation
Nj. Nusbaum, WHAT GOOD IS IT TO GET OLD, Medical hypotheses, 47(2), 1996, pp. 77-79
Citations number
7
Categorie Soggetti
Medicine, Research & Experimental
Journal title
Medical hypotheses → ACNP
ISSN journal
03069877
Volume
47
Issue
2
Year of publication
1996
Pages
77 - 79
Database
ISI
SICI code
0306-9877(1996)47:2<77:WGIITG>2.0.ZU;2-U
Abstract
The physiologic basis for aging is still incompletely understood, and most investigators have looked at aging as a process of decay without any clear adaptive advantage to the species. It is proposed that aging has potential evolutionary advantages, and that the aging process may have been the subject of positive selection.