The Problem With Life Expectancy

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In order to truly understand differences among animal lifespans, we need to stop thinking about a specific number and start thinking about a distribution. Check out the MinuteLabs interactive here: https://labs.minutelabs.io/survival-curves/ LEARN MORE ************** To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: - Life Expectancy At Birth: The average number of years a newborn in a particular group could expect to live. - Life Expectancy After Babyhood: The average number of years a member of a particular group could expect to live given that they had survived their first year. - Maximum Life Expectancy: The age at which the oldest known member of a particular group died. - Mortality Rate: The frequency of occurrence of death within a particular group during a particular time period. - Life Table: A table that shows the number of individuals within a group that survive from one year to the next until they are all dead. - Survivorship Curve: A plot of the data in a particular life table that shows the years on the x-axis and the number or percent of survivors on the y-axis. SUPPORT MINUTEEARTH ************************** If you like what we do, you can help us!: - Become our patron: https://patreon.com/MinuteEarth - Share this video with your friends and family - Leave us a comment (we read them!) CREDITS ********* David Goldenberg | Script Writer, Narrator and Director Sarah Berman | Illustration, Video Editing and Animation Nathaniel Schroede

Published 2021-03-11 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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