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Medawar revisited
— unresolved issues in research on ageing | | Author(s) | Bruce A Carnes, Yuri R Nakasato, S Jay Olshansky |
| Corporate Author | University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center; University of Illinois at Chicago; Oxford Institute of Ageing |
| Journal title | Ageing Horizons, 2006, no 3, Autumn/Winter 2005 |
| Publisher | Oxford Institute of Ageing, Oxford, Autumn/Winter 2005 |
| Pages | pp 22-27 |
| Source | Download only from: http:/www.ageing.ox.ac.uk/ageinghorizons |
| Keywords | Biological ageing ; Literature reviews. |
| Annotation | Ageing is a subject that can be and has been studied from an almost endless number of perspectives. For example, theories on the causes of ageing exist at levels of biological organisation ranging from the molecular to the population, and the scientific literature is replete with debates on the relative validity and merits of these theories. The breadth biological involvement described by these competing theories shows that ageing affects almost every aspect of living matter. As a result, ageing is easy to observe, but almost impossible to define precisely or measure operationally. Although much has been learned about ageing since Peter Medawar referred to it in 1952 as "an unsolved problem in biology", many important issues and questions remain unresolved. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-060228204 A |
| Classmark | BH: 64A |
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