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Steven Austad Books
https://www.uab.edu/cas/biology/people/faculty/steven-n-austad
- The University of Alabama at Birmingham
- College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Biology
Methuselah's Zoo
what nature can teach us about living longer, healthier lives
- 2022 Beaverton Lib 571.879 AUS
p001 ch01 Doctor Dunnet's Fulmar
I. LONGEVITY IN THE AIR
p019 ch02 The Origin of Flight
p031 ch03 Pterosaurs: The First Flying Vertibrates
p041 ch04 Birds: The Longest-Lived Dinosaurs
p059 ch05 Bats: The Longest-Lived Mammals
II. LONGEVITY ON THE EARTH
p081 ch06 Tortoises and Tuataras: Longevity on Islands
p101 ch07 Queen for a Lifetime
- p111 "Biology is complicated. If it were simple, it would be physics"
p113 ch08 Tunnels and Caves
p129 ch09 The Behmoths (Elephants)
p147 ch10 Big Brains (Nonhuman Primates)
III. LONGEVITY IN THE SEA
p177 ch11 Urchins, Worms, and Quahogs
p199 ch12 Fishes and Sharks
p219 ch13 Whales Tales
IV. HUMAN LONGEVITY
p245 ch14 The Human Longevity Story
p269 ch15 Methuselah's Zoo Moving Forward
How many atoms in human body?
- Total Earth biomass 550 GT carbon 5.5 x 1e2 x 1e9 x 1e6 (tonnes per gram) = 5.5e17 grams
- carbon is 12 amu and 12% of the atoms in human body
- Avogadro's number 6e23, hence one gram of human carbon is 5e22 atoms
- Associated with (100/12)*5e22 ≈ 4e21 total atoms per gram of human carbon
Fermi estimate: Total Earth biomass 5.5e17 * 4e21 atoms = 2e39 biomass atoms if humans representative
- There are 1e22 to 1e24 stars in the universe
- Thousands of asteroids and trillions of comets and icy bodies orbit the Sun
- Perhaps 3e12 comets per star times 1e24 stars is 6e36 icy bodies in the universe, not counting unbound bodies
- that's a LOT of physics
- Both biology and physics are complicated ... or simple, if one is a simpleton
To Err Is Human, To Admit It Is Not and Other Essays
- 2022
Real People Don't Own Monkeys
- 2022
Why We Age: What Science Is Discovering about the Body's Journey Through Life
1999 Why We Age: What Science Is Discovering about the Body's Journey Through Life