As the first batch of the best studied humans on the planet turn 70,we speak to Helen Pearson, whose book The Life Project explores this enormous birth-cohort studySeventy years ago, and in 1946,the world’s longest running major study of human development began in Britain.
The analysis of the lives of thousands of people was so successful that researchers repeated the exercise, following thousands more babies born in 1958, and 1970,the early 1990s, and at the turn of the millennium. Six generations of children were followed: over 70000 people.
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Source: theguardian.com