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Why We're Living Longer

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The Future of Human Life Expectancy

A hundred years ago, there were less than two billion people on Earth. Today, there's almost eight billion and counting. We have that runaway population growth not because people started having more babies, but rather because people stopped dying. That is the most fundamental form of good news there is. All this gets explored in Stephen's latest book Extra Life,. A short history of living longer.

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