Publisher's Synopsis
This dissertation presents a new hypothesis on ageing in which atmospheric oxygen is proposed as the crucial factor in the modulation of human life span. The effects of atmospheric oxygen as modulator of human life span are analyzed through three different approaches. The hypothesis on ageing presented here, does not contradict the essence of the six main theories of ageing, but integrates the individual principles intrinsic to each one of the other six theories on ageing into a more universal principle underlying all other influences. The universal motive modulating ageing according to the hypothesis presented here, is the earth's atmosphere, and one of its main components, oxygen.
