2023 Author: Adelina Croftoon | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-07-30 23:26
The problem of eternal life, or at least the search for the limit of life expectancy, has occupied the minds of people for many centuries. Trying to solve this riddle, scientists decided to study data on super-longevity - people who have lived for more than a hundred years. They hope this will help them understand why some people live longer than others.
Ian Vig (Jan Vijg), a molecular geneticist at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, claims that human life expectancy has reached its maximum. In his study, published in October 2016, he calculated that most people should not expect to live longer. 115 years … This is the lifespan of most super-longevity.
Danish demographer disagrees with Vig's findings James Vaupel (James Vaupel). He, and other researchers, claims that the calculations made by the geneticist are erroneous and do not correspond to reality.
I agree with them Siegfried Hekimi (Siegfried Hekimi) of McGill University in Canada: He claims that his research team analyzed how the length of centenarians from the US, UK, France and Japan has changed since 1968. The researchers argue that both the average and maximum life expectancy continue to increase, and the reasons for them to stop growing have not yet been found.
Yup de Beer (Joop de Beer), a demographer from the Netherlands, gives his data. According to calculations made by him and his colleagues, by 2070 life expectancy could reach 125 years old. The authors obtained these results after analyzing data on long-lived women from Japan, where the number of people who have crossed the 100-year-old threshold is rapidly increasing.
In general, most researchers agree that if people cannot live forever, then the existing limit significantly exceeds 120 years.
There is also a third point of view. Scientists who adhere to it believe that there are so many people on Earth, and so few super-long-livers that it is very difficult to draw any correct conclusions on such a small sample. In any case, for now, after all, older people began to overcome the 110-year milestone not so long ago.
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