A natural limit to human lifespan is argued for, and disputed
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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Subjects
- Maximum human lifespan · physical threshold · not located
Evidence
Partly verified — Core facts are sourced; some optional detail is deliberately absent.
Evidence for a limit to human lifespan
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.
Nature · 2016 · Partly verified
Dong X., Milholland B. and Vijg J., Nature, vol. 538, 2016, with subsequent published technical comments in the same journal
Recorded on Maximum human lifespan
- Jeanne Calment dies at 122 years and 164 days
- A natural limit to human lifespan is argued for, and disputed
- Calment's record is publicly challenged
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