Human senescence has been delayed by a decade. This finding, documented in 1994 and
bolstered since, is a fundamental discovery about the biology of human ageing, and one …

Aging is characterized by the progressive decline of biochemical and physiological function
in an individual. Consequently, aging is a major risk factor for diseases like cancer, obesity …

This text is intended for juniors, seniors, or beginning graduate students in statistics,
mathematics, natural sciences, and engineering as well as for adequately prepared students …

Fig. 1. Record female life expectancy from 1840 to the present [suppl. table 2 (1)]. The linear-
regression trend is depicted by a bold black line (slope= 0.243) and the extrapolated trend …

This paper sketches a theory of the secular decline in morbidity and mortality that takes
account of changes in human physiology since 1700. The synergism between technological …

Zuk M. & McKean KA 1996. Sex differences in parasite infections: patterns and processes.
International Journal for Parasitology 26: 1009–1024. Sex differences in parasite infection …

Old-age survival has increased substantially since 1950. Death rates decelerate with age for
insects, worms, and yeast, as well as humans. This evidence of extended postreproductive …

Failure Rate Modeling for Reliability and Risk focuses on reliability theory and, specifically,
to the failure rate (the hazard rate, the force of mortality) modeling and its generalizations to …

Publisher Summary This chapter presents a discussion on the reliability theory of aging and
longevity. In reliability theory, aging is defined as a phenomenon of increasing risk of failure …

▪ Abstract Biodemography is an emerging subdiscipline of classical demography that brings
life table techniques, mortality models, experimental systems, and comparative methods to …