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Articles on Human life span

August 10, 2022

Old age isn’t a modern phenomenon – many people lived long enough to grow old in the olden days, too

Sharon DeWitte, University of South Carolina

Nasty, brutish – but not necessarily short. Here’s how archaeologists know plenty of people didn’t die young.

July 5, 2022

Philip Clarke, University of Oxford; An Tran-Duy, The University of Melbourne, and Laurence Roope, University of Oxford

The public expects transparency about politicians’ earnings, but it’s not the only area where elite groups have an advantage.

August 10, 2021

Michael Pearce, University of Washington and Adrian Raftery, University of Washington

Jeanne Calment of France died in 1997 at the age of 122 years and 164 days. That record will be broken this century, statistical models suggest.

June 8, 2021

Richard Faragher, University of Brighton

Researchers think they’ve calculated the limit of human life span – but there’s more to it.

Michael Pearce
PhD Candidate in Statistics, University of Washington
An Tran-Duy
Associate Professor, Centre for Health Policy, The University of Melbourne
Sharon DeWitte
Professor of Anthropology, University of Colorado Boulder
Philip Clarke
Professor of Health Economics, University of Oxford
Richard Faragher
Professor of Biogerontology, University of Brighton
Laurence Roope
Senior Researcher, Health Economics, University of Oxford
Adrian Raftery
Boeing International Professor of Statistics and Sociology, University of Washington