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

Elisabetta BarbiFrancesco LagonaMarco MarsiliJames W VaupelKenneth W Wachter
Published in: Science (New York, N.Y.) (2018)
Beltrán-Sánchez et al 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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