During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, an increase in life expectancy was driven mainly by improvements in sanitation, housing, and education, causing a steady decline in early and ...
Confused? Allow us to explain. There’s an important distinction to be made here between average life expectancy and the maximum human lifespan. “Average life expectancy (the number of years a ...
R esearch conducted in The Netherlands has found that the maximum ceiling life span for a female is 115.7 years. For men, it is slightly lower at 114.1 years but even so, that's a long time. This ...
And although a human's average life expectancy has increased by decades in the last 100 years or so, our maximum life span hasn't shifted anywhere near as significantly. Many biologists think ...