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© Biochemical Society. Aging is a normal biological process that occurs in every human being who manages to escape the fate of a premature death. On the whole, there is a consistency about aging's hallmarks such that we can judge a person's age pretty accurately at just a glance. What is more natural, then, than to suppose that aging has been fashioned by natural selection as an adaptation in its own right, perhaps to clear the older generations out of the way and make room for the new ones? Longevity runs in families, which means that genes are involved1. Doesn't this imply that aging itself follows a genetic programme, perhaps merely a continuation of the same programming that gave shape to our bodies' growth and development?.
Author(s): Kirkwood TBL
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Biochemist
Year: 2015
Volume: 37
Issue: 4
Pages: 8-11
Print publication date: 01/08/2015
Acceptance date: 01/01/1900
ISSN (print): 0954-982X
ISSN (electronic): 1740-1194
Publisher: Biochemical Society
URL: http://www.biochemist.org/bio/03704/0008/037040008.pdf
