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David Bainbridge: Celebrating Middle Age

Clinical veterinary anatomist at Cambridge University and science writer David Bainbridge sees middle age as a distinctive human phenomenon, central to our species' success.

Clinical veterinary anatomist at Cambridge University and science writer David Bainbridge dispels the myth of the mid-life crisis and celebrates the evolution of middle age as a distinctively human phenomenon, central to the success of our species.

Middle age is not about getting old but rather "the changes of middle age represent a developmental stage of life as distinct as infancy or adolescence," he says.

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  • Wed 23 Nov 2011 20:45

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