Gompertz describes the exponential rise of adult mortality
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 · model · not located
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On the nature of the function expressive of the law of human mortality, and on a new mode of determining the value of life contingencies
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.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London · 1825 · Partly verified
Gompertz B., Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 1825
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- Gompertz describes the exponential rise of adult mortality
- Mortality is reported to plateau after age 105
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