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  2. Hysterical strength - Wikipedia

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    Hysterical strength refers to a display of extreme physical strength by humans, beyond what is believed to be within their capacity, usually occurring when people are in — or perceive themselves, or others, to be in — life-or-death situations.

  3. Ten-percent-of-the-brain myth - Wikipedia

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    The concept gained currency by circulating within the self-help movement of the 1920s; for example, the book Mind Myths: Exploring Popular Assumptions About the Mind and Brain includes a chapter on the 10% myth that shows a self-help advertisement from the 1929 World Almanac with the line "There is NO LIMIT to what the human brain can ...

  4. Dunbar's number - Wikipedia

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    Dunbar's number has become of interest in anthropology, evolutionary psychology, [12] statistics, and business management.For example, developers of social software are interested in it, as they need to know the size of social networks their software needs to take into account; and in the modern military, operational psychologists seek such data to support or refute policies related to ...

  5. Scientists May Have Discovered The Limit Of Human Life ... - AOL

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    The researchers discovered that while humans have gained about 30 years of life expectancy over the 20 th century, improvements in overall life expectancy have slowed—and actually declined in ...

  6. Maximum life span - Wikipedia

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    Maximum life span (or, for humans, maximum reported age at death) is a measure of the maximum amount of time one or more members of a population have been observed to survive between birth and death. The term can also denote an estimate of the maximum amount of time that a member of a given species could survive between birth and death ...

  7. Hayflick limit - Wikipedia

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    The Hayflick limit, or Hayflick phenomenon, is the number of times a normal somatic, differentiated human cell population will divide before cell division stops. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The concept of the Hayflick limit was advanced by American anatomist Leonard Hayflick in 1961, [ 3 ] at the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania.

  8. Limiter - Wikipedia

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    Limiting can refer to a range of treatments designed to limit the maximum level of a signal. Treatments in order of decreasing severity range from clipping, in which a signal is passed through normally but sheared off when it would normally exceed a certain threshold; soft clipping which squashes peaks instead of shearing them; a hard limiter, a type of variable-gain audio level compression ...

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