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A natural limit to human lifespan is argued for, and disputed

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Dong, Milholland and Vijg argue in Nature that the maximum reported age at death plateaued in the mid-1990s and infer a natural limit near 115 years. The paper draws several published technical comments disputing the statistical treatment of an extreme-value problem with extremely sparse data. The disagreement is about method, not about the underlying observation that the record has not moved.

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  2. Dong, Milholland and Vijg argue in Nature that the maximum reported age at death plateaued in the mid-1990s and infer a natural limit near 115 years. The paper draws several published technical comments disputing the statistical treatment of an extreme-value problem with extremely sparse data. The disagreement is about method, not about the underlying observation that the record has not moved.
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  4. Maximum human lifespan
  5. A natural limit to human lifespan is argued for, and disputed
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  7. Maximum human lifespan
  8. Compression of mortality (rectangularisation of the survival curve)
  9. Jeanne Calment
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  11. Jeanne Calment dies at 122 years and 164 days
  12. A natural limit to human lifespan is argued for, and disputed
  13. Calment's record is publicly challenged
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  15. Supports the argument for a natural limit near 115 years and, equally, the existence of substantial published dissent from its statistical treatment. V55 verification basis: neither the paper nor the comments were retrieved.
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