EXTRA LIFE / A SHORT HISTORY OF LIVING LONGER

The surprising and important story of how humans gained what amounts to an extra life, from the bestselling author of How We Got to Now and Where Good Ideas Come FromAs a species we have doubled our life expectancy in just one hundred years. All the advances of mo dern lifethe medical breakthroughs, the public health institutions, the rising standards of livinghave given us each about twenty thousand extra days on average. There are few measures of human progress more astonishing than our increased longevity.This book is Steven Johnso...[Read more]