General Index 



Calcium accumulation, 35, 91, 150, Collagen, 173 



169 

 Cancer, 25 

 Capybara, 47 

 Caracara, 50 

 Carnivores, 47, 48, 111 

 Carp, 53, 54 



Castrates, longevity of, 133 

 Castration, effects, 32, 172, 181, 



185 

 Cat, 46, 47, 48, 133, 152, 167, 



186 

 Catalysts, exhaustion, 163-4 



genes as, 164 

 Cattle, milk yield, 26 

 Caucasus, old inhabitants, 61 

 Cavy, 21, 28, 44 



Cells (see under cell-types and 

 organisms) 

 life-span of, 80, 142, 162 ff. 

 red blood, 166 

 senescence of, 163 ff. 

 turnover of, 167, 198 

 Cell-lineages, indeterminacy, 115 

 Centenarians, 60-1 

 'Cerebral death', 95, 99, 100 

 Chaffinch, 49 

 Chamaeleon, 45, 52 

 Chelonians, 51-2, 78-9 

 Chick, tissue in culture, 12 

 Childhood, growth, 152, 196 



prolongation, effect, 196 

 Chimaeras, age-, 199-200 

 Chimpanzee, 46 

 Chitin, 97-8 

 Chromosome number, 118-19, 168— 



169 

 Ciliates, 115, 119 

 Cladocera, 26, 29, 32, 44, 92, 93, 



113, 127 

 Clergy, mortality of, and mating, 



133 

 Clones, senescence in, 116 ff., 169 

 Cockatoo, 50 

 Cockroach, 20, 44 

 Coelenterates, 56, 81 

 Coleoptera, 44, 57 



age changes in, 169 



turnover of, 34 

 Colloids, 34 



age changes in, 2, 7, 97 

 Communities, of cells, 168 

 Condor, 50 



Conjugation, protozoan, 116-17 

 Copepods, 92 

 Cormorants, 110 

 Corpora lutea, 180 



pedunculata, 100 

 Corpus allatum, 167 

 Cosmic rays, 7 

 Crane, 50 

 Crayfish, 54 

 Cricket, mole, 99 

 Criteria of senescence, 26-30 

 Crockery, breakage rate, 22 

 Crocodiles, 31, 52, 79 

 Crustaceans, 92 ff., 11? 

 Cyanide resistance, 81, 83, 115 

 Cybernetics, 37, 175-6 

 Cyprinodont fish, 132-3 

 Cytomorphosis, 177 

 Cytoplasmic factors 



in clonal senescence, 120 



and vigour, 129 



Daghestan, 61 



Daphnids, 32, 92-5, 127, 143-6 



Death, 'cerebral', 95, 99, 100 



natural, of protozoa, 114 

 Deer, 40 



De-growth, 80, 84 

 Dehydration, 29 

 Depletion, 35-6, 91, 98, 102 

 Diabetes, 186 

 Diatoms, 153 

 Differentiation, cellular, 10, 11, 140, 



142, 162 

 Digestive tract, 1 1 



of arthropods, mitosis, 91, 96 

 Di-nitrophenol, 153 

 Diptera, 44 

 Diseases, age-linked, 3 

 Divergent series, 65 



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