Biological Theories of Aging
Theories of aging are numerous and no one theory has been accepted. There is a wide spectrum of the types of theories for the causes of aging with programmed theories on one extreme and error theories on the other. Regardless of the theory, a commonality is that as humans age, functions of the body decline.
Read more about this topic: Nancy Merz Nordstrom, Biogerontology
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