3 ms·
>Remember, most of our ancestors didn't live to be old enough to need delicate dental hygiene.) Really low historical life expectancy figures are mostly due to
by thfuran 4y ago
>Remember, most of our ancestors didn't live to be old enough to need delicate dental hygiene.)
Really low historical life expectancy figures are mostly due to extremely high infant and childhood mortality as well as higher mortality in childbirth. It's not like adults were elderly at 40.
- stjohnswarts 4y agoYep, if you lived til 16 you could easily and not surprisingly live to 60, after that it goes down hill pretty fast for most people without modern medicine...They didn't have a lot of retirement plans back then unless you were lucky enough to have some kids that wanted to keep grandpa around.