S J Olshansky
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Recent Articles
1.
Olshansky S, Hayflick L
AIMS Public Health
. 2018 Mar;
4(2):127-138.
PMID: 29546209
The modern success story of vaccinations involves a historical chain of events that transformed the discovery that vaccines worked, to administering them to the population. We estimate the number of...
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Grigsby J, Olshansky S
J Cross Cult Gerontol
. 2014 Jan;
4(4):307-34.
PMID: 24390120
Past trends in fertility and mortality in China have led to an age composition that will age rapidly in the coming decades. In this paper we examine measures of population...
3.
Carnes B, Olshansky S, Hayflick L
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci
. 2012 Aug;
68(2):136-42.
PMID: 22879449
Life span is a topic of great interest in science, medicine and among the general public. How long people live has a profound impact on medical costs, intergenerational interactions, and...
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Olshansky S, Rattan S
Discov Med
. 2010 Aug;
5(28):359-62.
PMID: 20704872
Extract: The conventional wisdom about why species age and live as long as they do is based in part on the modern version of the very old and now discredited...
5.
Olshansky S
J Comp Pathol
. 2009 Dec;
142 Suppl 1:S4-9.
PMID: 19954793
In 1825 the British actuary Benjamin Gompertz believed he had discovered a consistency in the timing of death in people that was so important that he labelled his observation a...
6.
Olshansky S
Sci Aging Knowledge Environ
. 2003 Nov;
2001(2):vp4.
PMID: 14602962
No abstract available.
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Carnes B, Olshansky S
Exp Gerontol
. 2001 Mar;
36(3):419-30.
PMID: 11250115
In the visible world, heterogeneity typically refers to the differences that exist among individuals in a defined population. These differences can arise from a variety of sources--biological, behavioral and social....
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Olshansky S, Carnes B, Desesquelles A
Science
. 2001 Mar;
291(5508):1491-2.
PMID: 11234076
No abstract available.
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Carnes B, Olshansky S, Gavrilov L, Gavrilova N, Grahn D
Perspect Biol Med
. 1999 Aug;
42(3):422-41.
PMID: 10432641
No abstract available.
10.
Carnes B, Olshansky S
Exp Gerontol
. 1998 Oct;
32(6):615-31.
PMID: 9785088
For over a century, actuaries and biologists working independently of each other have presented arguments for why total mortality needs to be partitioned into biologically meaningful subcomponents. These mortality partitions...