Edited by
JEAN-MARIE ROBINE
EILEEN M. CRIMMINS
SHIRO HORIUCHI
ZENG YI

2006

What do we know about human longevity? The scientific community regularly meets to examine and re-examine this question, which persists in intriguing us. We all keep proceedings of such meetings on our shelves, such as the CIBA Foundation Colloquia on Ageing held in 1959, the world conference Ageing: A challenge to Science and Society held in Vichy in 1975; Between Zeus and the Salmon, gathering the contributions to the US National Research Council Committee on Population presented in Washington in 1996; and the proceedings of the series Research and Perspectives in Longevity, convened by the Foundation IPSEN.