GENERAL INDEX 



Abkhasia, 61-2 

 Absenteeism, 26 

 Acceleration 



negative, of growth, 11 



of senescence, mammals, 153 

 Accumulation, 35, 91, 98, 154 

 Acrogeria, 135 

 Acromegaly, 185, 186 

 Actinians, 80, 92 



Activity, and longevity, 101, 193-4 

 Adaptation, senescence as evolved, 



9,38 

 Adrenal, 167, 173, 174 ff., 185 



cells, cultivation, 171 



mitosis in, 167 

 Adrenalin, 174 

 Adrenocorticotrophic hormone, 1 74, 



176 

 Adrenopause, 132 

 Age 



evidence of, 45, 59 ff. 



maternal, effects, 88, 125 ff. 



specific, 25, 36-7, 68, 70, 143, 162 

 in mammals, 148 

 in man, 195 

 inheritance, 121 

 Aggregation, in rotifers, 91 

 Agouti, 47 

 Albatross, 110 

 Alligator, 79 

 America, 15, 16, 62 

 Amphibia 



growth, 67 



longevity, 52, 53, 182 

 Amphipoda, 113 



Anabolic hormones, 183, 185, 197 

 Androgens, 178 

 Aneuploidy, somatic, 168-9 

 Annelids, 56, 83 



Antigen reaction, 170 



Ants, 57, 92 



Arachnids, 44 



Arthropods, 56-7, 92-102 



Asexual reproduction, 1 16-17, 83 ff. 



Ass, 46, 48 



Autocatalytic reaction, 10, 32, 138 



Axolotl, 182 



Bacon, Francis, 3, 8, 34, 45, 53-4, 



59 

 Bacteria, 7, 164, 170 

 Baldness, 135 

 Basal metabolism, age changes, 32, 



33 

 Bats, 47 

 Bears, 46 

 Beaver, 47 



Bees, 38»., 44, 99 ff., 112, 167 

 Beetles, 55, 57, 97 

 Bidder, G. P., 12-14, 38, 41, 64, 67 

 Bilharzia, 151 

 Biochemical criteria, of senescence, 



30 

 'Biological' time, 5-6 

 Birds, 63, 132 



life-span, 49 ff., 109-10 



ringing studies, 1 1 



specific size, 12, 160 



wild mortality, 1 1 

 Blackbird, 109 

 Bone maturation 185 

 Bream, 54, 72-4 

 Bulgaria, 61, 6\n. 

 Burns, mortality, 185 

 Butterflies, 99, 112 

 'By-product', senescence as, 12-14, 

 38-9 



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