By John Kuroski on October 6, 2016
ERIC CABANIS/AFP/Getty ImagesJeanne Calment — the world's oldest person ever recorded, ultimately reaching 122 — celebrates her 119th birthday on February 21, 1994 in her home of Arles, France.
If the scientists behind a controversial new paper are correct, we've now reached the limit of the human lifespan.
After millennia of evolution capped off by a doubling of the average worldwide life expectancy over the course of just the past hundred-plus years (from 31 in 1900 to 71 today), some researchers now believe that human longevity has finally reached its maximum of 115 years.
"It seems highly likely we have reached our ceiling," Dr. Jan Vijg, an expert on aging at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, told The New York Times. "From now on, this is it. Humans will never get older than 115."
Vijg and his colleagues, who published their report in Nature on October 5, indeed argue in no uncertain terms that despite advances in medicine fueling rapid increases in human longevity, we are nevertheless subject to inescapable genetic constraints that leave the limit of our lifespan fixed at 115.
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