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Extreme longevity tracking is the tracing and recording of claims of exceptionally long human lives (longevity), as a branch of demography.

See also

• Biodemography of human longevity
• Guinness World Records

References

• William Thoms (1879). The Longevity of Man. Its Facts and Its Fictions. With a prefatory letter to Prof. Owen, C.B., F.R.S. on the limits and frequency of exceptional cases. London: F. Norgate. OCLC 4854500.
• Langdon Kain (April 1898), "Man's Span of Life", The North American Review, 166 (497), archived from the original on 2007-12-09
• Young, Thomas Emley (1899). On Centenarians; and the Duration of the Human Race: A Fresh and Authentic Enquiry; with Historical Notes, Criticisms, and Speculations. London: Charles and Edwin Layton. OCLC 4874653.
• Allan L. Benson (May 16, 1909). "Learning the length of life" (PDF). New York Times.
• Bernard Jeune, James W Vaupel (1995). Exceptional Longevity: From Prehistory to the Present. Odense: Odense University Press. OCLC 300750028.
• "In search of the secret of centenarians". Health and mortality among elderly populations. International studies in demography. Oxford University Press. 1996. pp. 75, 76, 85. ISBN 978-0-19-823337-4. OCLC 246972107. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authors= ignored (help); Unknown parameter |editors= ignored (|editor= suggested) (help)
• Bernard Jeune; James W Vaupel (1999). Validation of Exceptional Longevity. ISBN 978-87-7838-466-9.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

External links

• International Database on Longevity
• Validated Living Supercentenarian list maintained by the Gerontology Research Group
• Extreme Longevity (Internet publication)

• Gerontology
• Demography
• Supercentenarians
• Biological records