Response to Comment on "The plateau of human mortality: Demography of longevity pioneers".

Barbi, Elisabetta; Lagona, Francesco; Marsili, Marco; Vaupel, James W; Wachter, Kenneth W · Science · 2018

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Abstract

Beltrán-Sánchez <i>et al</i> based their comment on misleading calculations of the maximum survival age. With realistic numbers of people attaining age 105 and the estimated plateau, the Jeanne Calment record is indeed plausible.

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