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The disputed late-life mortality deceleration law states that death rates stop increasing exponentially at advanced ages and level off to the late-life mortality plateau. A consequence of this deceleration is that there would be no fixed upper limit to human longevity — no fixed number which separates possible and impossible values of lifespan.
"Our Fragile Intellect" is a 2012 article by American biochemist Gerald Crabtree, published in the journal Trends in Genetics.Crabtree's speculative and controversial thesis argues that human intelligence peaked sometime between 2,000 and 6,000 years ago and has been in steady decline since the advent of agriculture and increasing urbanization.
The relationship between telomeres and longevity and changing the length of telomeres is one of the new fields of research on increasing human lifespan and even human immortality. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Telomeres are sequences at the ends of chromosomes that shorten with each cell division and determine the lifespan of cells . [ 3 ]
Idiocracy is a 2006 American science fiction comedy film co-produced and directed by Mike Judge from a screenplay written by Judge and Etan Cohen based on a story written by Judge. The plot follows United States Army librarian Joe Bauers and prostitute Rita, who undergo a government hibernation experiment.
He sees longevity as encompassing two aspects: the length of life and the quality of life. Healthspan, a major theme in the book, refers to "the portion of life free from disability or disease." [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Attia identifies the "Four Horsemen" of aging as the primary causes of declining healthspan— heart disease , cancer , neurodegenerative ...
On Length and Shortness of Life (or On Longevity and Shortness of Life; Greek: Περὶ μακροβιότητος καὶ βραχυβιότητος; Latin: De longitudine et brevitate vitae) is a text by the Ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle and one of the Parva Naturalia.
"the limiting values of q x [one-year probability of death] are 0.439 for women and 0.544 for men" [7] Following these studies, late-life mortality deceleration became one of the pillars of the theory of biodemography of human longevity, and models have incorporated it. It has been criticized at times, and recently has been very seriously ...
Willfried Spohn states that China is an ideocracy. [46] Gordon White said in 1999 China had ceased to be one. [47] Piekalkiewicz and Penn cite Syria, Iran, North Korea, and Sudan as still extant ideocracies. [48] In Israel, only the religious Jewish settlers and ultranationalists seek ideocratic solutions. [49]