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Just imagine the increase in human lifespan that can occur in the next 100 years, given how much it has changed in just 50 ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li
by subcosmos 9y ago
Just imagine the increase in human lifespan that can occur in the next 100 years, given how much it has changed in just 50 ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy#/media/File:Life_Expectancy_at_Birth_by_Region_1950-2050.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy#/media/File:Li...
- XorNot 9y agoEhhh... We've made very little progress increasing the length of our later lives. Almost all the average life span increase has come from fixing infant mortality and things which kill us in our 20s and 30s. We have not succeeded in slowing aging.
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- your-nanny 9y agoNot to denigrate the importance of what we have achieved.
- subcosmos 9y agoWe haven't slowed aging. We have however made progress in lowering overall cancer incidence and heart disease. https://www.cancer.org/latest-news/facts-and-figures-2018-rate-of-deaths-from-cancer-continues-decline.html https://www.cancer.org/latest-news/facts-and-figures-2018-ra... https://ourworldindata.org/causes-of-death https://ourworldindata.org/causes-of-death