Organismal ageing is accompanied by progressive loss of cellular function and systemic
deterioration of multiple tissues, leading to impaired function and increased vulnerability to …

Longer human lives have led to a global burden of late-life disease. However, some older
people experience little ill health, a trait that should be extended to the general population …

A novel theoretical framework for an embodied, non-representational approach to language
that extends and deepens enactive theory, bridging the gap between sensorimotor skills and …

The global obesity epidemic continues its relentless advance, currently affecting> 2 billion
people. This paper explores alternative ways to assess the potential disease impact of the …

THE GREAT ESCAPE is a movie about men escaping from a prisoner-ofwar camp in World
War II. The Great Escape of this book is the story of mankind's escaping from deprivation and …

Age-Period-Cohort Analysis: New Models, Methods, and Empirical Applications is based on
a decade of the authors' collaborative work in age-period-cohort (APC) analysis. Within a …

In the epidemiological literature, the fetal origins hypothesis associated with David J. Barker
posits that chronic, degenerative conditions of adult health, including heart disease and type …

Human populations and their use of land have transformed most of the terrestrial biosphere
into anthropogenic biomes (anthromes), causing a variety of novel ecological patterns and …

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 …

For centuries, the human race struggled to overcome food scarcity, disease, and a hostile
environment. With the onset of the industrial revolution, the great powers understood that …