Molson Hart

(That said it's almost midnight, I know nothing about the topic, and I just quickly skimmed the paper on scihub out of mere curiosity, so I put a low confidence on the above, and would love to hear what others think.)

I haven't given much thought but I doubt their method yields an accurate result. At first, it seems stupid to figure this out, but then you realize that vertebrates are quite similar to us and we could study them to figure out how to increase our own longevity.

Yes, that’s a good way to find ways for longevity. The problem suffers that, by definition, the estimate of the age of outliers with models calibrated on non outliers suffers from the same point from Taleb’s paper from yesterday: the average & the tail are different beasts.