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No Known Limit To How Long Humans Can Live

28-Jun-2017

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Paper in last year's Nature human body and brain petered out around 115.

Now five critiques highlight assumptions that weren't warranted.

Maximum lifespan in a population varies year to year and can have a sudden drop when longest-lived human dies.

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McGill University

Public Research university.

Nature

Scientific journal covering research from a variety of academic disciplines, mostly in science and technology

Siegfried Hekimi

Professor of Biology at McGill University.

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Life Expectancy