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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