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DTSTART:20141014T170500Z
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LOCATION:4274 Chamberlin Hall (Refreshments will be served)
SUMMARY:Human Longevity: Where are we going and how are we getting the
 re? \, Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar\,  Alberto Palloni\, UW Departm
 ent of Sociology
DESCRIPTION:Our species has been around for 250\,000 years or so. Duri
 ng nearly 249\,800  of these\, life expectancy at birth was steady at 
 a level hovering around 25 years. But over the last 200 years\, that i
 s 0.1 percent of our species' lifetime on the planet\, life expectancy
  at birth increased from about 25 years to about 80 years or\, equival
 ently\, Homo added 2.6 months of life per year. Some countries have cr
 uised along with a pace of gains in survival twice as large as this av
 erage. It turns out that\,  on average and contrary to most past forec
 asts\, life expectancy at birth has been going up linearly for a long 
 time.<br>
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\nHow did this happen? Can we keep it going? Aside fr
 om occasional setbacks (HIV\, collapse of social organizations\, wars\
 , Ebola(?)) can one harbor the hope that by the year 2050 newborn coho
 rts will be expected to live 90-100 years? And if so\, how healthy cou
 ld the 90% of newborns who will make it to their 90th birthday expecte
 d to be? And what does this do to the course of human evolution?<br>
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