Individual Longevity Versus Population Longevity
(2019) Centenarians : An Example of Positive Biology — ISBN: [9783030207618], p. 53-70, published
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Poulain, Michel 
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- The term longevity is usually associated with long life and with the property of being long-lived, whereas in demography it is also a synonym for life expectancy, the average duration of life within a population. As such, the concept of longevity has double meaning: individual longevity related to long-lived individuals and population longevity usually described by the demographic indicator of the life expectancy. This contribution aims at distinguishing two concepts of longevity that nowadays stimulate numerous scientific investigations.
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Poulain, M. (2019). Individual Longevity Versus Population Longevity. In Calogero Caruso (ed.) (ed.), Centenarians : An Example of Positive Biology (p. p. 53-70). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20762-5_4