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Parent topics
- Life [r]: Living systems, of which biologists seek the commonalities distinguishing them from nonliving systems. [e]
- Death [r]: State of thermodynamic equilibrium achieved after the end of life. [e]
- Demography [r]: The study of the change in the size, density, distribution and composition of human populations over time. [e]
- Statistics [r]: A branch of mathematics that specializes in enumeration, or counted, data and their relation to measured data. [e]
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Other related topics
- Aging (biology) [r]: The gradual irreversible changes in structure and function of an organism that occur as a result of the passage of time (National Library of Medicine). [e]
- History [r]: Study of past human events based on written documents. [e]
- Japan [r]: East Asian country of about 3,000 islands; world's second-largest economy; population about 127,000,000. [e]
- Life extension [r]: Medical and non-medical attempts to slow down or reverse the processes of aging, to extend both the maximum and average lifespan. [e]
- Maximum life span [r]: Measure of the maximum amount of time one or more members of a group has been observed to survive between birth and death. [e]
- Mortality (demography) [r]: Mortality is the branch of demography that studies rates and causes of deaths for a population as a whole. [e]
- Multiple sclerosis [r]: A chronic, inflammatory, demyelinating disease that affects the central nervous system (CNS). [e]
- Social history [r]: A branch of history that examines ordinary people and their strategies of coping with life, social organizations, social movements and deliberate attempts to induce social change. [e]
