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Extra Life
Extra Life
Subtitle:
A Short History of Living Longer
Book Category:
Science > History
Author:
JOHNSON, STEVEN
Editor::
Young, Courtney
Illustrator::
A FEW BLACK-AND-WHITE CHARTS T/O
Binding:
Hardcover
ISBN 13:
9780525538851
Price:
US 28

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Penguin Random House.

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Book Description

As a species we have doubled our life expectancy in just one hundred years. All the advances of modern life--the medical breakthroughs, the public health institutions, the rising standards of living--have given us each about twenty thousand extra days on average. There are few measures of human progress more astonishing than our increased longevity.