Word: gerontolo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from constant. There are wide variations even among animals of a single species in a state of nature, and naturally they are vastly wider among human beings, living under infinitely more varied conditions, not only social but physical, economic, nutritional and medical. In this fact lies one of the gerontolo- gists' chief hopes: to discover why some men are biologically old at 60, while others like Stagg are still young at a far more advanced chronological age-then to apply this knowledge to slow down what now appears to be premature aging...
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