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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jul 13.
Published in final edited form as: Science. 2011 Mar 11;331(6022):1325–1328. doi: 10.1126/science.1201571

Table 2.

Gompertz estimates of female mortality parameters and life-span summary statistics. Adult age interval is the age interval containing the mean age of first live birth; IMR (= Gompertz a) is the Gompertz estimate of instantaneous mortality rate at the first adult age interval [with its 95% confidence interval (CI)]; RoA (= Gompertz b) is the adult rate of aging estimated with Gompertz acceleration (with its 95% CI); MRDT is the mortality rate doubling time during adulthood; Oldest age reached is the age class of the oldest observed individual; Median age is the 50% survival age with its range.

Species Adult age interval (years) IMR (/year) 95% CI RoA 95% CI MRDT (no. of years) Oldest age reached (years)
Median age [Range]
Estimated Known*
Sifaka 6–7 0.0278 [0.019, 0.0410] 0.0991 [0.072, 0.136] 7.0 31–32 23–24 10 [9, 12]
Muriqui 8–9 0.00170 [0.00042, 0.00685] 0.129 [0.0722, 0.230] 5.4 40–41 26–27 25 [18, 33]
Capuchin 6–7 0.0415 [0.0150, 0.114] 0.165 [0.055, 0.494] 4.2 26–27 19–20 11 [10, 13]
Baboon 5–6 0.0285 [0.020, 0.040] 0.123 [0.0926, 0.165] 5.6 27–28 27–28 8 [7, 9]
Blue monkey 7–8 0.00723 [0.00367, 0.0143] 0.160 [0.123, 0.209] 4.3 33–34 26–27 18 [17, 22]
Chimpanzee 14–15 0.00774 [0.0038, 0.0156] 0.0992 [0.070, 0.140] 7.0 53–54 38–39 16 [10, 25]
Gorilla 9–10 0.00028 [0.00004, 0.00214] 0.211 [0.148, 0.300] 3.3 43–44 38–39 33 [31, 35]
Human 0.00009 [0.00008, 0.00009] 0.0961 [0.0956, 0.0967] 7.2 100+ 100+ 83.5
*

Oldest individual with known date of birth.

Truncated at 18–19 for mortality analysis because of relatively smaller sample sizes of deaths and transitions in later age classes.

Data from (16), modeled beginning at age interval 15–16 years through 99–100 years.