Middle Age: A Natural History - Softcover

DAVID BAINBRIDGE was trained in veterinary surgery and zoology at Cambridge University, where he now teaches Clinical Veterinary Anatomy. He is the author of four previous books: on pregnancy, on the biology of sex and sexuality, on the brain, and most recently Teenagers (Portobello, 2009).www.davidbainbridge.org

A welcome corrective to the widely held notion that being middle aged is ghastly -  India Knight, Sunday Times
David Bainbridge is the best kind of writer on this subject; reassuring without being woolly and articulate without being incomprehensible. You won't get any less middle-aged reading this book, but you'll feel better about it -  David Quantick
Bainbridge's zoological examination of the human animal results in a study that is full of surprises... Heartening -  James McConnachie, Sunday Times
Thought-provoking. [It] should certainly shed some new light on one's own potbellied or menopausal mid-life crisis... Fascinating -  Katie Law, Evening Standard
There's lots of good news for the middle aged... A very jolly book with clear scientific explanations -  William Leith, Telegraph
Looking beyond the clichés, veterinary surgeon and reproductive biologist David Bainbridge, who teaches at Cambridge, sets out to discover "what middle age is and what it is for". Most of us could have a pretty good stab at the first question, but the latter is where Middle Age gets interesting.. Bainbridge's answer lies in the size of the brain and our need for food and ideas with which to feed it ... a fascinating idea -  Carl Wilkinson, Financial Times