Methuselah's Zoo
What Nature Can Teach Us about Living Longer, Healthier Lives
$53.69
- Hardcover
312 pages
- Release Date
5 October 2022
Summary
Stories of long-lived animal species—from thousand-year-old tubeworms to 400-year-old sharks—and what they might teach us about human health and longevity.
Opossums in the wild don’t make it to the age of three; our pet cats can live for a decade and a half; cicadas live for seventeen years (spending most of them underground). Whales, however, can live for two centuries and tubeworms for several millennia. Meanwhile, human life expectancy tops out around the mid-eighties, with some ou…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262047098 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262047098 |
| Author: | Steven N. Austad |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 312 |
| Release Date: | 5 October 2022 |
| Weight: | 610g |
| Dimensions: | 32mm x 236mm x 162mm |
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Critics Review
“For aspiring scientists and health care advocates.” – Library Journal
“For aspiring scientists and health care advocates.”
— Library Journal
“It was refreshing to read Methuselah’s Zoo, the latest book from biologist Steven Austad, who expresses with clarity what we know and what we don’t know about aging.”
—Science
“I recommend Methuselah’s Zoo … a smartly written book … an entertaining tour of the whole animal kingdom in all its mad variety. I had no idea I would so enjoy reading about the naked mole rat, or indeed the “human fish”, a type of salamander that lurks in Balkan caves … Austad knows more about his subject than anyone on the planet.”
—The Telegraph
About The Author
Steven N. Austad
Steven N. Austad is Distinguished Professor of Biology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the inaugural holder of the UAB Protective Life Endowed Chair in Healthy Aging. He is the author of Why We Age- What Science Is Discovering about the Body’s Journey through Life and Real People Don’t Own Monkeys. Among his many varied jobs before becoming an academic, Austad was a Hollywood lion trainer and a naturalist guide for the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology, traveling to Antarctica, the Galapagos, New Guinea, Ethiopia, Siberia, Mongolia, and elsewhere.
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