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> But neither is a senior person living healthily and happily into their late years something evolution considered. People living into their late years was not
by laurencerowe 5y ago
> But neither is a senior person living healthily and happily into their late years something evolution considered.
People living into their late years was not uncommon historically. The huge changes to life expectancy in modern times are largely explained by so many fewer dying in childhood and child birth.
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