Josh Mitteldorf – Cracking the Aging Code
Interview with Dr. Josh Mitteldorf, author and researcher who runs the Aging research blog Aging Matters.
Interview with Dr. Josh Mitteldorf, author and researcher who runs the blog \”Aging Matters\” on aging research.
Dr. Josh Mitteldorf, an evolutionary biologist, has been a contributor to aging science for many years. His work has been centered on theories of aging. He poses the question, \”Why do we age and then die?\”
Josh is co-author of \”Cracking the Ageing Code: the New Science of Growing Elderly — and What It Means to Stay Young\”: \”A revolutionary examination of why we grow old, what it means to our health, as well as how we might be able fight it.
In Cracking the Aging Code Josh Mitteldorf, a theoretical biologist and Dorion Sagan, an award-winning writer and ecophilosopher, reveal that evolution is more complex than we thought. This book uses meticulous multidisciplinary science to show that aging does not happen by accident, nor is it a result of genetic inevitability or wear and tear. Instead, aging serves a fascinating evolutionary function: to stabilize populations, ecosystems and species, which are constantly threatened by cyclic swings.
A population that grows too quickly can be at risk of being wiped out. The aging process has evolved in order to allow us to adjust our growth and prevent ecological crises from starvation or predation.
The book is a provocative, entertaining and pioneering new look at aging that will challenge our understanding of death and what makes us humans.
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