Stanley Shostak is Associate Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh
Preface
ix
Prologue
xi
Quo Vadis?
1
(44)
Why Become Immortal?
3
(1)
Has Life Changed?
4
(5)
``Hello, Dolly!'' and Salutations to Stem Cells
9
(8)
Why We Are Not Immortal Or What Is Life Anyway?
17
(19)
Achieving Immortality through Biotechnology
36
(9)
Why Immortality Cannot Evolve
45
(36)
Where Does Longevity Come From, and Why Has Evolution Made Us Mortal Rather than Immortal?
46
(19)
What Is an Evolutionary View of Longevity, And Why Are the Prospects so Bleak for Achieving Immortality through Evolution?
65
(14)
Afterword: Immortality Triumphant!
79
(2)
Why Immortality Cannot Develop
81
(44)
Development's ``Why, Where, What, When, How, and Why?''
83
(28)
Development According to Embryologists and Developmental Biologists
111
(11)
Conclusions
122
(3)
Life's Fundamental Feature: Devolution
125
(40)
Getting Down to Basics: Life Begins
126
(6)
An Introduction to Devolution
132
(3)
The Devolution of Eucarya
135
(6)
The Devolution of Sex
141
(5)
The Devolution of Metazoa
146
(5)
The Devolution of Life Histories
151
(4)
The Devolution of Death
155
(6)
Conclusions
161
(4)
Making Immortals: From Blastocyst to Generator
165
(30)
Taking Another Look at Cloning
166
(10)
Taking Another Look at Stem Cells
176
(10)
Making Immortals
186
(1)
Making Generators
187
(8)
Epilogue: Reprise and Prediction
195
(14)
Prospects for Immortalization
196
(6)
Adjustments Required by Immortalization
202
(5)
At What Cost
207
(2)
Endnotes
209
(32)
Glossary
241
(22)
Bibliography
263
(30)
Index
293
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