Seven Decades. How We Evolved to Live Longer, Hardback

Our ability to live for decades may seem like a modern luxury made possible by clean water and advances in medicine. In fact, human longevity is a legacy of our unique evolutionary path as a species. Seven Decades challenges the belief that life in the past was 'nasty, brutish, and short', tracing how our capacity for long life came to be and trans

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Author(s): Michael D. Gurven
• Illustration(s): 70 b/w illus.
• Number of pages: 536
• Publication date: 2025
• Dimensions: 165 x 245 x 39
• Cover type: Hardback