How long can humans live? We may not have hit the limit yet / Quanto tempo possono vivere gli esseri umani? Forse non abbiamo ancora raggiunto il limite
How long can humans live? We may not have hit the limit yet / Quanto tempo possono vivere gli esseri umani? Forse non abbiamo ancora raggiunto il limite Segnalato dal Dott. Giuseppe Cotellessa / Reported by Dr. Giuseppe Cotellessa Older people who are alive today may have benefitted from advances in medicine after the second world war / Le persone anziane che vivono oggi potrebbero aver beneficiato dei progressi della medicina dopo la seconda guerra mondiale The record for the maximum human lifespan has been unbroken since the 1990s, but that might soon change, according to a new way of analysing mortality records. While human life expectancy has been rising for decades in most countries, the record for the longest-lived person hasn’t been increasing – but that might be about to change. Using a new way of analysing mortality records, figures from 19 high-income countries suggest that we haven’t yet approached the maximum human lifespan and could see the record start to rise in the n