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merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• kerrigan778@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Your ancestors had melanin production to fit their sun exposure and seldom lived past 40

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  • merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Maybe tens of thousands of years ago, but 2000ish years ago 60ish was old age. The main reason life expectancy has gone up isn’t that old people didn’t make it to 50, it’s that young people didn’t make it to 2. If a couple has 5 kids, 3 of them die as toddlers and the other two make it to 70 the average life expectancy is about 30, but that doesn’t mean living past 30 is unusual.

    Also, tens of thousands of years ago there was an ice age, but for the last 10k years light-skinned Europeans still had normal summers and worked in the fields.

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    • kerrigan778@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yes, that is when we evolved

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      • MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You must know how averages work. The poster is correct. Average age at death is a horrible metric when you have gigantic birth and infant mortality rates.

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      • merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        And only then?

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      • sowitzer@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Speak for yourself.

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• alekwithak@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Mud and henna masks and other full skin coverings are extremely common among indigenous people and presumably your ancestors as well.

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  • REDACTED@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    We also used to have much more hair, shadowing the skin from sun

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• BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Your ancestors didn’t shave

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  • merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I don’t either, but my nose isn’t hairy and it would burn to a crisp outdoors.

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