ESTIMATING THE LIMITS TO HUMAN LIFE EXPCTANCY

这个工作要解决的问题是， 生命存在任何“自然”（生物学）上限 在这样的环境中，人类的期望， 由发达国家提供。 了回答 取决于生物学基础可以被 人口统计学分析或死亡率。 这个研讨会是 旨在促进必要的跨学科 理论生物学家和应用生物学家之间的交流（谁做 老龄化和死亡的研究）和理论与应用 人口统计学家（专门研究人类死亡率）。 拟议的讲习班是一个特邀小组的产物， 1987年5月人口问题会议 在会上，五位发言者认为， 与估计人类寿命上限有关的问题 期待 由于没有得出明确的结论， 认为适当的申请资金，以提供更多的 生物学家和人口学家可以在这个富有成效的论坛上 更深入地讨论生物学基础如何 估计人类寿命的未来趋势。 这个车间的计划规模很小。 二十人 将被邀请为期两天。 五场讨论会有 计划，其目的是系统地 将生物学和人口统计学观点纳入分析 为了估计人类死亡率的上限， 人类预期寿命。 研讨会的形式包括 委托编写几份文件，其中将概述 在各个关键领域的研究。 最终目标是出版一套概念上和 经验综合论文（编辑论文），评论 由那些参加了人类生物学会议的人， 死亡率，因为它涉及到估计人类死亡的上限， 中心blog

The question to be addressed by this workship is whether or not there is any "natural" (biological) upper limit to the life expectancy of a human population in environments such as those provided by developed countries. An answer to this question depends upon the extent to which a biological foundation can be given to the demographic analysis or mortality. This workshop is designed to promote the necessary inter-disciplinary communication between theoretical and applied biologists (who do research on aging and death) and theoretical and applied demographers (who specialize in the study of human mortality). The proposed workshop is an outgrowth of an invited panel, organized for the May 1987 meetings of the Population Association of America, in which five speakers considered the problems related to estimating an upper limit to human life expectancy. Since no firm conclusions were reached, it was deemed appropriate to apply for funds to provide a more productive forum in which biologists and demographers could discuss in greater depth how a biological foundation could be given to the estimation of future trends in human longevity. The projected scale of the workshop is small. Twenty participants will be invited for a two-day period. Five discussion sessions have been scheduled, the purpose of which is to systematically integrate biological and demographic perspectives on the analysis of human mortality for purposes of estimating an upper limit to human life expectancy. The workshop format involves commissioning several papers, which will summarize the state of research invarious key areas. The ultimate goal is to publish a set of conceptually and empirically integrated papers (an edited treatise), with comments by those who attended the conference, on the biology of human mortality as it relates to estimating an upper limit to human longevity.