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The biology of death : origins of mortality

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  • "Pourquoi les organismes vivants sont-ils condamnés à mourir? Grâce aux travaux menés depuis le milieu du XXe siècle, la biologie permet de montrer le rôle de la mort au coeur même de la logique du vivant. La mort cellulaire n'est pas un accident, elle est programmée et essentielle à la vie de l'organisme. Les auteurs racontent ces recherches et exposent la conception biologique de la mort."
  • "Invecchiamento e morte si possono evitare? Esiste la possibilità di "riprogrammare" le cellule del nostro corpo, in modo da impedirne l'invecchiamento? E, se questo non è possibile, la morte può davvero essere considerata come un processo biologico utile alle necessità dell'universo?"
  • ""Andre Klarsfeld and Frederic Revah discuss in detail the latest scientific findings and views on death and longevity. They challenge many popular assumptions, such as the idea that the death of individual organisms serves to rejuvenate species or that death and sexual reproduction are necessarily linked. Finally, they describe current experimental approaches to postponing natural death in lower organisms as well as in mammals." "The variability of the adult life span - from a few hours for some insects to more than a millennium for the sequoia and thirteen times that for certain wild berry bushes - challenges the notion that death is unavoidable. Evolutionary theory helps explain why and how some species have developed biological mechanisms that seemingly allow them to resist time. Death cannot be understood without looking into cells - the essential building blocks of life intriguingly, at the level of cells, death is not always an accident; it is often programmed as an indispensable aspect of life, which benefits the organism as a whole."--Résumé de l'éditeur."

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  • "Biologie de la mort"
  • "The biology of death : origins of mortality"@en
  • "The biology of death : origins of mortality"
  • "Biología de la muerte"@es
  • "The biology of death"

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