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People also had much lower life expectancies. I don't think it's useful to say that because the people in antiquity didn't have sun protection they were stronge
by barkingcat 4y ago
People also had much lower life expectancies. I don't think it's useful to say that because the people in antiquity didn't have sun protection they were stronger or somehow immune to sunburns ... maybe they just died before living long enough for it to matter.
Or maybe they all died from cancers of all kinds, just not categorized as such, or died by murder / wars before cancer became an issue.
- kadoban 4y agoThe vast majority of historically lower life expectancies is due to changes in death rates in the first few years. People who made it to adulthood weren't all keeling over at 35.
- Lewton 4y agohttps://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy-at-age-15?time=1798 https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy-at-age-15... Life expectancy at age 15 has gone up from 60 to 90 That’s still a massive increase