Description: Chance, Development, and Aging explores a subject that has been largely ignored: the sources of individual variations in development and aging that cannot be attributed to genes or the external, environment. And by doing so, this book develops new insight on aging and the individual. Gathering evidence from diverse sources, the authors examine those differences in individuals that arise during development and those that might influence outcomes of aging. Through their research, they pose a new set of questions about the contribution of chance events during development, and although chance variations during development are well known within the sub-fields of developmental biology, there has been little recognition of their effects on variations in adult form and function.

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