Word: vaupel
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...body, after all, is just a machine--albeit a wet, cranky, willful one--and, as with all machines, it should be possible to extend the warranty. "There is no evidence we know of that human life expectancy is anywhere close to its ultimate limit," says James Vaupel, a Duke University demographer and the soon-to-be director of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Germany, "if there is an ultimate limit...
...predict as many as 48 million.) Moreover, while most experts cap average life expectancy at around 85, a research team in Denmark maintains that America's current crop of newborns will live on average to 100. "It will be 80 years before they are 80," says Danish researcher James Vaupel. "In those years there will be a lot of health and biomedical progress...