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  2. Ageing - Wikipedia

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    The maximum human lifespan is suggested to be 115 years. [49] [50] The oldest reliably recorded human was Jeanne Calment, who died in 1997 at 122. Dementia becomes more common with age. [51] About 3% of people between the ages of 65 and 74, 19% of those between 75 and 84, and nearly half of those over 85 years old have dementia. [52]

  3. Numeral prefix - Wikipedia

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    septuagenarian, octogenarian (a person 70–79 years old, 80–89 years old) centipede, millipede (subgroups of arthropods with around 100 feet, or around 1 000 feet) In many European languages there are two principal systems, taken from Latin and Greek, each with several subsystems; in addition, Sanskrit occupies a marginal position.

  4. List of oldest living people - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of the oldest living people who have been verified to be alive as of the dates of the cited supporting sources. It was estimated in 2015 that between 150 and 600 living people had reached the age of 110. [1]

  5. Gerontocracy - Wikipedia

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    Generally the mark of a gerontocracy is the presence of a substantial number of septuagenarian or octogenarian leaders—those younger than this are too young for the label to be appropriate, while those older than this have generally been too few in number to dominate the leadership.

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  7. Blind Al - Wikipedia

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    It is unclear exactly how old Al is. In Deadpool #6 (June 1997), [12] Al refers to herself as a sexagenarian but she later claims to remember Flapper-dresses (popular in the 1920s) [1] and was later referred to by Montgomery Burns, a precog at Landau, Luckman & Lake, as a septuagenarian. [13]

  8. Longevity myths - Wikipedia

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    Bhagiratha did tapas for 1000 deva or god years (360,000 years in Human years) to please Ganga, to gain the release of his 60,000 great-uncles from the curse of saint Kapila. So, Bhagiratha lived for more than 360,000 years. [33] The Hindu god Krishna is said to have lived for 125 years and 8 months from 3228 BCE to 3102 BCE.

  9. Timeline of human evolution - Wikipedia

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    The timeline of human evolution outlines the major events in the evolutionary lineage of the modern human species, Homo sapiens, throughout the history of life, beginning some 4 billion years ago down to recent evolution within H. sapiens during and since the Last Glacial Period.