Table of Contents:
  • Discovery of late life
  • Late life is predicted by Hamiltonian evolutionary theory
  • Late-life mortality and fecundity plateaus evolve
  • Genetics of late life involve antagonistic pleiotropy
  • Demography of late life with lifelong heterogeneity
  • Evolution of lifelong heterogeneity
  • Experimental tests of lifelong heterogeneity
  • Death spirals
  • Physiology of late life
  • Late life in human populations
  • Aging stops : late life, evolutionary biology, and gerontology.