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The emergence of longevous populations

Overview of attention for article published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, November 2016
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50 news outlets
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4 blogs
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478 X users
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8 Facebook pages
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Title
The emergence of longevous populations
Published in
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, November 2016
DOI 10.1073/pnas.1612191113
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Authors

Fernando Colchero, Roland Rau, Owen R Jones, Julia A Barthold, Dalia A Conde, Adam Lenart, Laszlo Nemeth, Alexander Scheuerlein, Jonas Schoeley, Catalina Torres, Virginia Zarulli, Jeanne Altmann, Diane K Brockman, Anne M Bronikowski, Linda M Fedigan, Anne E Pusey, Tara S Stoinski, Karen B Strier, Annette Baudisch, Susan C Alberts, James W Vaupel

Abstract

The human lifespan has traversed a long evolutionary and historical path, from short-lived primate ancestors to contemporary Japan, Sweden, and other longevity frontrunners. Analyzing this trajectory is crucial for understanding biological and sociocultural processes that determine the span of life. Here we reveal a fundamental regularity. Two straight lines describe the joint rise of life expectancy and lifespan equality: one for primates and the second one over the full range of human experience from average lifespans as low as 2 y during mortality crises to more than 87 y for Japanese women today. Across the primate order and across human populations, the lives of females tend to be longer and less variable than the lives of males, suggesting deep evolutionary roots to the male disadvantage. Our findings cast fresh light on primate evolution and human history, opening directions for research on inequality, sociality, and aging.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 3 2%
Germany 1 <1%
Switzerland 1 <1%
Czechia 1 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Luxembourg 1 <1%
Unknown 185 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 45 23%
Researcher 38 20%
Student > Bachelor 22 11%
Other 15 8%
Professor 14 7%
Other 33 17%
Unknown 27 14%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 60 31%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 12 6%
Social Sciences 12 6%
Psychology 9 5%
Medicine and Dentistry 8 4%
Other 59 30%
Unknown 34 18%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 691. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 25 August 2023.
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#30,398
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Outputs from Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
#886
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Outputs of similar age
#599
of 416,196 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
#13
of 921 outputs
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