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Re:Why aren't the oldest living people getting any older? by sebkomianos on Tuesday July 26, 2011 @11:26AM (#2807755)
This is very interesting, can you point me/us to any explanations about it?
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Re:Why aren't the oldest living people getting any older? by shabble on Tuesday July 26, 2011 @06:03PM (#2809661)
I'd guess at the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_limit_theorem - Combined distributions tend towards Gaussian (bell-curve)
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