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Editorial| May 01 2021 Letter to the Editor Joseph D. McInerney Joseph D. McInerney Lutherville, Maryland Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The American Biology Teacher (2021) 83 (5): 290. https://doi.org/10.1525/abt.2021.83.5.290 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Joseph D. McInerney; Letter to the Editor. The American Biology Teacher 1 May 2021; 83 (5): 290. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/abt.2021.83.5.290 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentThe American Biology Teacher Search Dear Dr. McComas: It was very nice to see “How Can Human Beings Live beyond 100? A Freshman Seminar Course on Aging” (January 2021 issue), by four students and one professor from Hangzhou Dianzi University, in Hangzhou, China. One laudable intent of the course is to help freshmen students “change from a passive learning mode to an active one,” a goal that all NABT members embrace and that the course clearly accomplished. As I read the authors’ descriptions of the course content, based on seven areas of biology and biomedicine, I was struck by the absence of one overarching question that students might profit from exploring: “Why?” What are the reasons for trying to extend human life beyond 100 years? A cursory search of the relevant data reveals that average life expectancy in China is about 75 years; in the US, it’s about 80 years. Is that not good enough... You do not currently have access to this content.
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