Who’d call dat livin’?
Ian Glynn: Ageing, 3 January 2002
The Quest for Immortality: Science at the Frontiers of Ageing
by S. Jay Olshansky and Bruce A. Carnes.
Norton, 254 pp., £19.95, August 2001,0 393 04836 5 Show More
by S. Jay Olshansky and Bruce A. Carnes.
Norton, 254 pp., £19.95, August 2001,
“... As a role model, Methuselah is not ideal. Apart from his 969-year lifespan, almost all we know about him is that his first child, a son, was born when he was 187, and that he subsequently ‘begat sons and daughters’. We don’t know whether those first 187 years included a protracted adolescence, or how he fared towards the end of his life ... ”
