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• merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yes, that is when we evolved

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    • MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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      • kerrigan778@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        No, I mean that for the brunt of humans evolving to be genetically roughly what we are today, it is unlikely many people were living much past their prime. I am talking about roughly 100,000 years ago up to around 10,000 years ago when humans developed from a largely hunter-gatherer lifestyle.

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    • merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      And only then?

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    • sowitzer@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Speak for yourself.

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