Giacinto Libertini

Giacinto Libertini

Giacinto Libertini has written extensively on aging theory and proposes that aging is purposely programmed.

See:

Phylogeny of Age-Related Fitness Decline in the Wild and Related Phenomena

An Adaptive Theory of Aging Based on Kin Selection

Papers and books on aging by Giacinto Libertini:

Libertini G. (1983) [Evolutionary Arguments] [Book in Italian]. Società Editrice Napoletana, Naples (Italy). [Free]
Libertini G. (1988) An Adaptive Theory of the Increasing Mortality with Increasing Chronological Age in Populations in the Wild. J. Theor. Biol. 132, 145-62. [PubMed] [Google Scholar] [Free]
Libertini G. (2006) Evolutionary explanations of the “actuarial senescence in the wild” and of the “state of senility”. TheScientificWorldJOURNAL 6, 1086-1108 DOI 10.1100/tsw.2006.209. [PubMed] [Google Scholar] [Free]
Libertini G. (2008) Empirical evidence for various evolutionary hypotheses on species demonstrating increasing mortality with increasing chronological age in the wild. TheScientificWorldJOURNAL 8, 182-93 DOI 10.1100/tsw.2008.36. [PubMed] [Google Scholar] [Free]
Libertini G. (2009a) The Role of Telomere-Telomerase System in Age-Related Fitness Decline, a Tameable Process, in Telomeres: Function, Shortening and Lengthening (Mancini L. ed.), Nova Science Publishers Inc., 2009, New York (ISBN 978-1-60692-350-4). [Nova Science Publishers] [Free]

Libertini G. (2009b) Prospects of a Longer Life Span beyond the Beneficial Effects of a Healthy Lifestyle, in Handbook on Longevity: Genetics, Diet & Disease (Bentely J.V. & Keller M.A. eds.), Nova Science Publishers Inc., 2009, New York (ISBN 978-1-60741-075-1).

Libertini G. (2011) Evolutionary Arguments on Aging, Disease, and Other Topics. ISBN 9780978870928. Azinet Press. Annapolis [Free]

www.programmed-aging.org