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Human lifespan records are not remarkable but their durations are

Anthony Medford ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

* E-mail: Amedford@health.sdu.dk

Affiliation Interdiscliplinary Center on Population Dynamics, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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James W. Vaupel

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Interdiscliplinary Center on Population Dynamics, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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Human lifespan records are not remarkable but their durations are

Anthony Medford,
James W. Vaupel

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Published: March 14, 2019
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0212345

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Comparison with the estimated distribution of record life length which was obtained in ”Human life is unlimited - but short”, Extremes (2017) 20: 713–728 Posted by hrootzén on 30 Oct 2019 at 10:19 GMT

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