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Ripe old age: humans may already have reached maximum lifespan

Reuters: Science - Posted: October 5th, 2016, 3:51pm UTC

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When she turned 120 years old in 1995, plucky Frenchwoman Jeanne Calment was asked what type of future she expected.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=cC0c_GI0FUY:owvuz632Qa4:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=cC0c_GI0FUY:owvuz632Qa4:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?i=cC0c_GI0FUY:owvuz632Qa4:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=cC0c_GI0FUY:owvuz632Qa4:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?i=cC0c_GI0FUY:owvuz632Qa4:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/scienceNews/~4/cC0c_GI0FUY" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

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