Life cycles-heredity-gender-race and ethnicity and culture

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How do factors such as heredity, gender, race and ethnicity, lifestyle, culture, and environment positively or negatively affect our life expectancy? What are some steps that we can take to extend our life cycles? Additionally, describe how the theories of aging relate to aging life expectancy – is aging random, programmed, or both?

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