And given that there is no evidence that, for example, the proportion of Japanese carrying the mitochondrial longevity gene has increased recently, changing circumstances are a more likely explanation for the dramatic increase in the numbers of the oldest old in the past 50 years.
The 27-year-old Cherry leaves behind three children, the oldest being 2 years old and the youngest just 2 months, his father said.
While 38-year-old Mavericks guard Jason Kidd is one of the NBA's oldest players, Dallas has an old lineup around him, with only one starter under 30.
The iron-and-carbon-based ink used in one of the oldest Hebrew commentaries on the Old Testament is an example of this.
Fiorina, famously an outsider brought in to shake up HP, is at least temporarily replaced by the oldest of HP's old guard.
Beyonce (up for all three), The Black Eyed Peas (Record and Album), Maxwell (Song) and Dave Matthews Band (Album) all emerged in the '90s, with 43-year-old Matthews the oldest of the lot (Maxwell is 37, The Black Eyed Peas all around 35, Beyonce 29).
Armstrong was near tears at that point, referring to 13-year-old Luke, the oldest of his five children.
The oldest is 111-year-old Henry Allingham, who fought in the Battle of Jutland rather than in the trenches like Mr Patch.
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If he wins this time, the 82-year-old will become the oldest ever actor to receive an Oscar, surpassing Jessica Tandy who was 80 when she was named best actress for Driving Miss Daisy.
When this fate befalls 14-year-old Molly, her 8-year-old sister Daisy and Gracie, their 10-year-old cousin, the oldest girl, who is not one for hesitation or self-doubt, promptly incites the younger two to escape with her.
Rothberg's 14-year-old daughter, the oldest of his five kids, has a mild form of an inherited disease called tuberous sclerosis complex, a relatively rare disorder (50, 000 or so Americans have it) that can cause benign tumors in the heart, kidney, skin, lungs, eyes and brain, where seizures can occur.
The animal weighed more than 900kg (2, 000lbs) and, at 100 years old, it was the oldest recorded turtle as well as the largest.
Of Shipman's 215 victims, 171 were women and 44 were men, with the oldest being a 93-year-old woman and the youngest a 47-year-old man.
The 54-year-old became the second-oldest driver to start on the pole in a Sprint Cup car, a few months short of Harry Gant's mark.
Kilbeggan 15 Year Old: Sitting on the banks of the Brosna River and opened in, the Old Kilbeggan Distillery was the oldest licensed whiskey distillery in the world (it no longer distills).
He attended services at the Old-New Synagogue, the oldest surviving Jewish house of worship in Europe.
In such a youthful field, one of the brightest sparks is actually one of its oldest hands: the 76-year-old Alejandro Zaffaroni.
The areas are arranged in order of the victims' ages, ranging from the youngest, 3-year-old Dana Falkenberg, to the oldest, John D.
And the reason people were probably searching for that is a 71-year-old Japanese man has become the oldest person to scale all seven, they call them the Seven Summits.
The Bristol Old Vic has the title of the oldest working theatre in the UK, having opened in 1766.
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Her long life may give the 73-year-old Seidler the distinction of being the oldest writer to win an Oscar for an original screenplay.
But while Trundle may have once been a Swans icon, the 32-year-old striker has defied one of the oldest sporting philosophies by going back.
At more than 60 years old, ManpowerGroup is one of the oldest and largest staffing firms in the country, handling both part-time and full-time work.
Erbil is reputed to be the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world, the old citadel in the centre of the city dates back 6, 000 years.
"I couldn't believe it had gotten so expensive" to rent, said Ms. Regan, 36 years old, who is moving before her oldest son starts school this fall.
While this is bad news for anyone claiming to have found DNA in, say an amber-encased mosquito, it does mean that the record for the oldest DNA sample (currently 500, 000 years old) can be broken.
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The Jazzamba Lounge - which opened a few years ago - is in the old ballroom of what is described as the oldest hotel in Addis Ababa.
And knowing the rate at which neutral mutations accumulate in most animal species, the 50% figure suggests that the first asexual rotifer lived about 80m years ago twice as far back as the oldest known fossil bdelloid, a 40m-year-old specimen preserved in amber.
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