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Ordered this book but haven't touched it yet: http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/10/01/551018759/are-hunter-gatherers-the-happiest-humans-to-inhabit

• dogruck 9y ago
  Doesn't look too happy to me -- maybe because I'm over 30 and would be dead. Also, I loved my mother (who is dead) -- but at least she didn't die in childbirth. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy
  • red75prime 9y ago
    Life expectancy at birth was low because of high children mortality. If you've made it to adolescence, you could expect to live 50-80 years. https://condensedscience.wordpress.com/2011/06/28/life-expectancy-in-hunter-gatherers-and-other-groups/ https://condensedscience.wordpress.com/2011/06/28/life-expec...
    • dogruck 9y ago
      Losing many of my children, wives, and loved ones sure would make me sad.
      • red75prime 9y ago
        It would surely make you sad, if you had time-traveled there. If you had been living there, you probably would be a bit more fatalistic and willing to accept untimely deaths as a part of natural order, having no experience of better life.
        • dogruck 9y ago
          Does your logic also apply to the millions of people living in slavery and profound poverty today? I concede that people adjust their expectations to norms that surround them. But I also feel there are certain floors in the human condition -- the death of a child being one of those rock bottoms.