25 was a shortened life span due to agriculture. We live longer than cave men now, but it hasn’t tripled.
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Disgracefulone@discuss.online 1 week ago
Right, like uhh you know the average life span for a healthy male used to be 25 years right? Did you think that was for no reason? Smfh.
Did you think 90 years passed and suddenly the life span tripled?
The idiocy
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 week ago
It was an average largely brought down by childhood mortality. If you made it to ten you’d probably see thirty, if you made it to 25 you’d probably see 50ish.
BreadOven@lemmy.world 1 week ago
This (at least I think) exactly. There were so many deaths at birth/during childhood from things that are easily fixed now. I’ve also seen some places say if you made it to the teens, you’re pretty likely to hit 50ish.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Are the other time periods not counting that?
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
No they are, that is why we have an average lifespan of around 75 now.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Yeah, only (almost) doubled. Why the downvotes, they’re right.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
I think everybody else was inferring a healthy 25 year old man, not life expectancy from birth (counting children).
Disgracefulone@discuss.online 1 week ago
No? Medical care and sanitation. and yes it has tripled in the 25yo cases? Avg life span now is in the 70s.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
I’m speaking of natural humans, not humans during the 18th century. And counting children.
Nearly doubling is still very good! In case this needs to be said, I’m on team science, not team antivax.
Disgracefulone@discuss.online 6 days ago
I’m not entirely sure what you mean by natural humans - are there artificial ones?? 🤔
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
24, that is quite a historical extreme, isn’t it?
In the wild, average live span was around 40 to 50 years. There’s even studies about the evolutional reasons why we live longer than other primates/why we are the only hominide with grandparents.
Disgracefulone@discuss.online 1 week ago
Sure, it is an extreme. As in my edit I stated: this is due to sanitation. It is all over the board throughout the 15th-18th century world because pandemics/diseases/epidemics came and went and sanitation was so low and medicine was so bad that people dropped like flies, and thus did the life expentency average.