Gompertz describes the exponential rise of adult mortality
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Benjamin Gompertz presents to the Royal Society the observation that the force of mortality after early adulthood increases in approximately geometric progression with age. The formulation gives ageing a quantitative signature — a slope — and therefore gives any future claim to have slowed ageing something specific to demonstrate.
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- Benjamin Gompertz presents to the Royal Society the observation that the force of mortality after early adulthood increases in approximately geometric progression with age. The formulation gives ageing a quantitative signature — a slope — and therefore gives any future claim to have slowed ageing something specific to demonstrate.
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- The Gompertz mortality law
- Gompertz describes the exponential rise of adult mortality
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- The Gompertz mortality law
- Compression of mortality (rectangularisation of the survival curve)
- The late-life mortality plateau
- Gompertz describes the exponential rise of adult mortality
- Mortality is reported to plateau after age 105
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- Supports the claim that adult human mortality rises approximately exponentially with age. V55 verification basis: the paper was NOT retrieved in this session — WebFetch is egress-blocked and no search was available — so the citation rests on the producer's knowledge of the work.
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