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By Roger Gosden. 427 pp., illustrated. New York, W.H. Freeman, 1996. $23.95. ISBN 0-7167-3059-6.

Great title. For that matter, great chapter titles: "Mating Madness," "A Dog's Life," "The Gland Grafters," "A Very Infertile Species." Meant for the general reader, this lively and good-humored book by a well-known professor of reproductive biology at the University of Leeds contains many fascinating tidbits about aging, death, and hormones. The bibliography lists most of the classic gerontologic references, and the many entertaining factoids have a solid scholarly base.

We learn that some male marsupials die after nonstop copulation at a single session; that male and female Pacific salmon, but not rainbow trout, die after spawning; that if all . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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