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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. Adult development - Wikipedia

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    Adult development encompasses the changes that occur in biological and psychological domains of human life from the end of adolescence until the end of one's life. Changes occur at the cellular level and are partially explained by biological theories of adult development and aging. [1]

  5. Life expectancy - Wikipedia

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    Life expectancy development in some big countries of the world since 1960 Life expectancy at birth, measured by region, between 1950 and 2050 Life expectancy by world region, from 1770 to 2018 Human life expectancy is a statistical measure of the estimate of the average remaining years of life at a given age.

  6. Human taxonomy - Wikipedia

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    Human taxonomy is the classification of the human species (systematic name Homo sapiens, Latin: "wise man") within zoological taxonomy. The systematic genus , Homo , is designed to include both anatomically modern humans and extinct varieties of archaic humans .

  7. Evolution of ageing - Wikipedia

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    Examples of life history traits include; age and size at first reproduction, number of size and offsprings produced, and the period of reproductive lifespan. Organisms put energy into growth, reproduction, and maintenance by following a particular pattern which changes throughout their lifetime due to the trade-offs that exist between the ...

  8. 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]

  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.