...(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Limits to life span Life-history strategy Life expectancy Maximum life span Centenarians Maximum reported age at death...

..., instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Longevity Centenarians Life expectancy Life-history strategy Limits to life span Maximum life span Maximum reported age at death Mortality trajectories How long can humans live? How long will we live in the future...

..., allowing more of them to become centenarians and a few even super-centenarians. This situation makes humans unique as a species in which we can for the first time test if there truly is a maximum life span. Indeed, the fact that human life expectancy at birth, which has increased from a mere 50 years...

...Angelos C. Economos That the steep increase of mean life expectancy in the developed countries during the first decades of this century has now come to a halt is neither news nor reason for panic. Mean life span cannot exceed the apparent biological limit for the human species, a maximum life span...