TY - BOOK AU - Carey,James R. AU - Tuljapurkar,Shripad TI - Life span: evolutionary, ecological, and demographic perspectives SN - 0878341110 (pbk. : alk. paper) AV - QP85 .L583 2003 PY - 2003/// CY - New York PB - Population Council KW - Life spans (Biology) KW - Longevity KW - Population biology KW - Demography KW - Dure��?� de vie (Biologie) KW - Longv� ? it.� ? KW - Biologie des populations KW - Dm��?�ographie N1 - "Population and development review, a supplement to volume 29, 2003, ISSN 0098-7921."; Includes bibliographical references; Life span : a conceptual overview / James R. Carey -- How and why do aging and life span evolve? / Steven Hecht Orzack -- Ecological correlates of life span in populations of large herbivorous mammals / Jean-Michel Gaillard ... [et al.] -- Environment and longevity : the demography of the growth rate / Marc Mangel -- Life span in the light of avian life histories / Robert E. Ricklefs, Alex Scheuerlein -- Life span extension of Drosophila melanogaster : genetic and population studies / Lawrence G. Harshman -- Interspecies differences in the life span distribution : humans versus invertebrates / Shiro Horiuchi -- Embodied capital and the evolutionary economics of the human life span / Hillard Kaplan, Jane Lancaster, Arthur Robson -- Rescaling the life cycle : longevity and proportionality / Ronald Lee, Joshua R. Goldstein -- Survival beyond age 100 : the case of Japan / Jean-Marie Robine, Yasuhiko Saito -- Life course, environmental change, and life span / Jean-Marie Robine -- The world trend in maximum life span / John R. Wilmoth, Jean-Marie Robine -- Post-Darwinian longevity / James W. Vaupel -- Hazard curves and life span prospects / Kenneth W. Wachter ER -