Vaupel

If improvements in health continues apace, "a majority of children born since the year 2000 will celebrate their hundredth birthdays," contends James Vaupel, of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, in Rostock, Germany.

How To Live To 100 2009

I did a quick google scholar search on Longevity and Vaupel and got ,eg, this paper, where they got about 25% heritability for longevity.

Lifespan and Heritability, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Olshansky says Vaupel has "no empirical evidence" to back such a view.

How To Live To 100 2009

Dr. James W. Vaupel has determined that genes have more to do with how tall you are than how long you'll live.

No Longevity in My Genes 2006

In: "Crustaceans and the Biodiversity Crisis", F.R. Schram & J.C. von Vaupel Klein (eds.), Brill, Leiden, pp. 405-422.

All that matters 2005

Summing up research at the National Institute on Aging, the demographer James Vaupel goes so far as to suggest that we are now on the threshold of a "new paradigm of aging," in which the average life expectancy could reach 100 or more.

Will America Grow Up Before It Grows Old? 1996

Researchers Jim Oeppen and Dr James Vaupel found that people in the country with the highest life expectancy would live to an average age of 100 in about six decades.

BBC News - Home 2011

Vaupel is retiring at the end of the school year after teaching preschool for 21 years.

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Before coming to Open Hands the year after the preschool opened, Vaupel taught out of her own home for 13 years.

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Thirteen years later, Vaupel, who attends Waterman Bible Church, knew a preschool was getting started out of the United Methodist Church and started teaching there the year after it opened.

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