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===Maximum=== [[Oldest people|The longest verified lifespan]] for any human is that of French woman [[Jeanne Calment]], who is verified as having lived to age 122 years, 164 days, between 21 February 1875 and 4 August 1997. This is referred to as the "[[maximum life span]]", which is the upper boundary of life, the maximum number of years any human is known to have lived. Although maximum life expectancy is around 125 years, genetic enhancements could allow humans to live for a maximum of 245 years, according to InsideTracker.<ref name="Santrock">{{cite book|vauthors=Santrock J|date=2007|title=Life Expectancy. A Topical Approach to: Life-Span Development|pages=128β132|location=New York, New York|publisher=The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.|isbn=978-0-07-313376-8}}</ref> According to a study by biologists Bryan G. Hughes and Siegfried Hekimi, there is no evidence for a limit on human lifespan.<ref>{{cite press release|date=28 June 2017|title=No detectable limit to how long people can live|url=https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/06/170628131500.htm|publisher=[[Science Daily]]|access-date=4 July 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|vauthors=Hughes BG, Hekimi S|title=Many possible maximum lifespan trajectories|journal=Nature|volume=546|issue=7660|pages=E8βE9|date=June 2017|pmid=28658230|doi=10.1038/nature22786|s2cid=4464500|bibcode=2017Natur.546E...8H}}</ref> However, this view has been questioned on the basis of error patterns.<ref name="Newman_2018">{{cite journal|vauthors=Newman SJ|title=Errors as a primary cause of late-life mortality deceleration and plateaus|journal=PLOS Biology|volume=16|issue=12|pages=e2006776|date=December 2018|pmid=30571676|pmc=6301557|doi=10.1371/journal.pbio.2006776|doi-access=free}}</ref> A theoretical study shows that the maximum life expectancy at birth is limited by the human life characteristic value Ξ΄, which is around 104 years.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Liu|first=Xiaoping|date=December 2015|title=Life equations for the senescence process|journal=Biochemistry and Biophysics Reports|language=en|volume=4|pages=228β233|doi=10.1016/j.bbrep.2015.09.020|pmc=5669524|pmid=29124208}}</ref>
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