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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