scholarly journals The core of determining changes in human life span is to resist fatal diseases

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
yong ping huang

Abstract: In the global death population, more than 90% of the population died due to illness. In different years, different countries, different incomes, different genders and different age groups, the situation is the same (except very few). Death data show that the life span of the vast majority of human population depends entirely on the ability to resist fatal diseases. In the nearly 300 years since the industrial revolution, the ability to resist deadly diseases has greatly improved, which has brought about a multiple increase in the overall life span of human beings, without exception in all countries of the world. Rapid social development brings medical progress, a large number of drugs against deadly diseases came out continuously, the continuous development of public health and the continuous improvement of population nutrition brought about by economic development... Together, these factors promote human resistance to deadly diseases, and will also promote the next round of life span leap.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
yong ping huang

Abstract: In the global death population, more than 90% of the population died due to illness. In different years, different countries, different incomes, different genders and different age groups, the situation is the same (except very few). Death data show that the life span of the vast majority of human population depends entirely on the ability to resist fatal diseases. In the nearly 300 years since the industrial revolution, the ability to resist deadly diseases has greatly improved, which has brought about a multiple increase in the overall life span of human beings, without exception in all countries of the world. Rapid social development brings medical progress, a large number of drugs against deadly diseases came out continuously, the continuous development of public health and the continuous improvement of population nutrition brought about by economic development... Together, these factors promote human resistance to deadly diseases, and will also promote the next round of life span leap.


2020 ◽  
pp. 83-99
Author(s):  
Alan McHughen

Chapter 3 explores “Human DNA” and the genetic features of human beings. Genetic inheritance in humans follows the same patterns and principles as those of other animals and plants, but far more scientists have studied humans than have studied any other species. Thus, scientists have accumulated a hugely disproportionate amount of information directly relevant to humans. This chapter examines some curious features of human evolution. Is there a genetic basis for human race and genetic “purity”? Are telomeres ticking time bombs inside cells limiting the human life span? How did most humans end up with Neanderthal DNA in their genomes? It’s just the way the DNA cookie crumbles. This chapter also introduces the use of technology based on DNA, from human DNA fingerprinting to probing human history.


Gerontology ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 63 (6) ◽  
pp. 524-526 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonid A. Gavrilov ◽  
Vyacheslav N. Krut'ko ◽  
Natalia S. Gavrilova

Recent scientific publications suggest that human longevity records stopped increasing. Our finding that the mortality of centenarians has not decreased noticeably in recent decades (despite a significant mortality decline in younger age groups) is consistent with this suggestion. However, there is no convincing evidence that we have reached the limit of human life span. The future of human longevity is not fixed and will depend on human efforts to extend life span.


1983 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 63-65
Author(s):  
Gail A. Jaquish ◽  
Richard E. Ripple ◽  
Stephan Arndt

Perceptions of aging were obtained from three age groups: adolescents, young adults, and adults. Male and female Americans and South Africans ranging in age from 15 to 40 years provided words to describe eight age decades of the human life-span. Responses were coded for positive, neutral, and negative perceptions of the eight age-stages. A repeated measures analysis of variance tested for differing patterns of responses between the age and national groups. Main effects for nation, age group, and age-stage were significant. An absence of significant interactions suggested that the developmental pattern of perceptions of age-stages across the human life-span was comparable in the two nation states. The three age groups expressed similar perceptions of aging, although adults viewed aging more positively than did adolescents and young adults.


Hypatia ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen G. Post

The human life span has been extended considerably, and among the very old, women outnumber men by a large margin. Thus, the aging society cannot be adequately addressed without taking into account the experience of women in specific. This article focuses on women as caregivers for aging parents. It critically assesses what some women philosophers are saying about the basis and limits of these caregiving duties.


10.1038/85611 ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 195-195 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard C. Strohman
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