The New York Times Sunday Book Review took a look at Jonathan Weiner’s Long for This World: The Strange Science of Immortality — and, particularly, its focus on the work of Aubrey de Grey:
“As Weiner describes it, the inspiration for de Grey’s scientific quest for immortality came in a flash one sleepless night: ‘The evolutionary theory of aging predicts chaos. And chaos is just what you see at the cellular and molecular level, and what you will always see. But what these troubles all have in common is that they fill the aging body with junk. Maybe we can just clean up all the scree and rubble that gathers in our aging bodies.’ The beauty of this view is that ‘curing’ aging requires no special knowledge of design, or any understanding of just how the cellular junk got there in the first place. It only requires that we get rid of it.”
Read the full review in the The New York Times Sunday Book Review.
