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by ha292 4141 days ago
The article glosses over the contribution of genetics by providing just one vague counterexample.

However, see this

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....

Very clear evidence in a wide study about the contribution of genetics.

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I spend a lot of time in a journal club discussing human behavior genetics with researchers who include researchers on extreme old age. That's a data-mining study, and would not impress other researchers in the field (or even get published in a better journal) without being replicated in an independent dataset. Spurious gene-correlation studies of this kind are a dime a dozen.

Food for thought is that the heritability of longevity as discovered in twin studies is actually not particularly high.