Background
Carey, James Robert was born on October 26, 1947 in Jefferson, Iowa, United States. Son of Robert Donald and Laverna Elizabeth Carey.
(This book is the world's largest compendium of documented...)
This book is the world's largest compendium of documented life spans in vertebrates. Record life spans for over 3000 species of mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles, and fish indicate wild or captive status and sex (where available), and are linked to source references. A brief introduction addresses the concept of life span, summarizes methods for date gathering, criteria for inclusion, and provides a graphic summarization of within and among group variation in record life spans. The date is organized in four main tables: mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians, and fish. The book is useful in demography, fisheries and wildlife biology, ecology, population and evolutionary biology, and gerontology.
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(This is the first book to comprehensively apply the funda...)
This is the first book to comprehensively apply the fundamental tools and concepts of demography to a nonhuman species. It provides clear and concise treatment of standard demographic techniques such as life table analysis and population projection; introduces models that have seldom appeared outside of the demographic literature including the multiple decrement life table, the intrinsic sex ratio, and multiregional demography; and addresses demographic problems that are unique to nonhuman organisms such as the demographic theory of social insects and harvesting techniques applied to insect mass rearing. The book also contains a synthesis of fundamental properties of population such as momentum and convergence to the stable age distribution, with a section on the unity of demographic models, and appendices detailing analytical methods used to quantify and model the data gathered in a ground-breaking study on the mortality experience of 1.2 million medflies. Based on an insect demography course at the University of California, Davis, the book is intended for practicing entomologists, population biologists, and ecologists for use in research or as a graduate text.
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( Despite our deep interest in mortality, little is known...)
Despite our deep interest in mortality, little is known about why some individuals live to middle age and others to extreme old age. Life span, mortality, and aging present some of the most profound mysteries in biology. In Longevity, James Carey draws on unprecedented data to develop a biological and demographic framework for identifying the key factors that govern aging, life span, and mortality in humans and other animals. Carey presents the results of a monumental, twelve-year, National Institute on Aging-funded research project on the determinants of longevity using data from the life tables of five million Mediterranean fruit flies, the most comprehensive set of life table studies ever on the mortality dynamics of a single species. He interprets the fruit fly data within the context of human aging and the aging process in general to identify the determinants of mortality. Three key themes emerge: the absence of species-specific life span limits, the context-specific nature of the mortality rate, and biodemographic linkages between longevity and reproduction. A powerful foundation for the emerging field of biodemography and a rich framework for considering the future of human life span, Longevity will be an indispensable resource for readers from a range of fields including population biology, demography, gerontology, ecology, evolutionary biology, and medical research.
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Carey, James Robert was born on October 26, 1947 in Jefferson, Iowa, United States. Son of Robert Donald and Laverna Elizabeth Carey.
Bachelor of Science, Iowa State University, 1973. Master of Science, Iowa State University, 1975. Doctor of Philosophy, University California, Berkelely, 1980.
Assistant professor University California, Davis, 1980, associate professor, 1987—1992, professor, since 1992. Member Center for the Economics and Demography of Aging, University California, Berkeley. Staff sergeant United States Army Mountain Ranger Camp, 1967-1969.
( Despite our deep interest in mortality, little is known...)
(This is the first book to comprehensively apply the funda...)
(This book is the world's largest compendium of documented...)
Fellow: American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member: Gerontological Society of America, Population Association American.
Children: Bryce, Ian, Meradith.