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>>Previously people died younger, so couldn’t I'm not sure that's true - people died younger, sure, but they also had kids much earlier. Even assuming 18 for f
by gambiting 1y ago
>>Previously people died younger, so couldn’t
I'm not sure that's true - people died younger, sure, but they also had kids much earlier. Even assuming 18 for first child(and it often was earlier than 18), you'd be a great grandparent at the age of 54 - and people have commonly lived that long even in antiquity.
- lostlogin 1y agoHave a look at the graph here - ‘Life expectancy by world region, from 1770 to 2018’ The average lifespans was only 40-something until the 1850-1950 range. I’m sure plenty lived longer, but the average was terrible. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy
- messe 1y agoThose figures are heavily skewed by high infant mortality rates.
- rightbyte 1y agoRead the "other measures" part of the article. "While the most common age of death in adulthood among modern hunter-gatherers (often taken as a guide to the likely most favourable Paleolithic demographic experience) is estimated to average 72 years,[169] the number dying at that age is dwarfed by those (over a fifth of all infants) dying in the first year of life, and only around a quarter usually survive to the higher age." Etc.
- bethekidyouwant 1y agoYeah, I don’t know why people actually believe everyone died at 40 clearly that that’s not true. You’ve met a 40-year-old, right? Here’s a popular one include all the abortions as deaths and you’ll see that the average age that we live now is also 40
- gambiting 1y agoWhy would you include abortions too? My wife had a miscarriage at 3 months in, should we include that in stats too?