A new study published by the Royal Society Open Science journal demonstrates how humans could live up to at least 130 years.
Among the findings of the study, researchers discovered that after a certain point, the surviving/dying chance stabilises at a 50/50. The hypothesis is that newly advanced medicine could potentially grant increasingly long lifespans.
Lead researcher and professor of statistics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Anthony Davison, told Agence France-Presse:
"Beyond age 110 one can think of living another year as being almost like flipping a fair coin. If it comes up heads, then you live to your next birthday, and if not, then you will die at some point within the next year," he added.
In order to reach their conclusion, the researchers had to implement existing analyses to extrapolate data. However, their findings strongly support the plausibility that humans will be able to reach the age of 130 within the century.
Davison told AFP:
"We were able to show that if a limit below 130 years exists, we should have been able to detect it by now using the data now available."
He adds:
"But in the absence of major medical and social advances, ages much over this are highly unlikely ever to be observed."
[h/t: Futurism]
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