The odds of reaching 100 as a function of your mom's age at your birth

arugula · 2023-07-17T00:08:07.310Z

From the Gavrilovs.

Biodemography of Exceptional Longevity: Early-life and Mid-life predictors of...

Effects of early-life and middle-life conditions on exceptional longevity are explored in this study using two matched case-control studies. The first study compares 198 validated centenarians born in the United States in 1890-1893 to their...

Joseph_Lavelle · 2023-12-19T20:03:33.540Z

My mom was 21 when I was born. I like this chart.

RapAdmin · 2023-12-20T02:40:31.849Z

Biologists suspect that reproducing earlier in life may be linked to dying younger, and now an analysis of over 270,000 people’s genomes has provided evidence that this is true

Full article: https://archive.ph/Cagum

New Scientist

Having children earlier in life is genetically linked to dying younger

An analysis of over 270,000 people's genomes has found that people with genes linked to having children earlier in life are also more likely to die before the age of 76