Hendrikje van Andel, bristlecone pines, and why we die
2004; Oxford University Press; Volume: 14; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1093/eurpub/14.4.337
ISSN1464-360X
Autores Tópico(s)Pasture and Agricultural Systems
Resumocentury, survival beyond the age of 110 is still extremely rare,and survival beyond the age of 120 is practically non-existent.The eight years that still separate Hendrikje van Andel from theage at which world record holdster Jeanne Calment died in 1997,clearly illustrate how much of a ‘ statistical outlier’ the latter was.Jeanne Calment was born in 1875 in the French town of Arles,where she lived all her life and encountered Vincent van Goghin her father’s shop in the 1890s. “I’ve been forgotten by God”,is how she explained her miraculous survival that must havebeen a lonely experience indeed, as she survived her onlygrandson in 1963.
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