• elbiter@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    You also lived for 32 years, tops, and had 9 children for 3 to survive

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      11 days ago

      No, half the people died in early childhood and most of the rest lived for around 40-70 years. Agriculture also sometimes made life expectancies worse, even in the year 1900 life expectancy globally was still less than 35.

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        11 days ago

        Year 1900 life expectancy seems like it would be more severely impacted by industrialization than agriculture. But yeah, hunter-gatherers don’t just drop dead at 32.

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        10 days ago

        I think one thing that kept life expectancies low was high child mortality, that will skew the average downwards. Unless they were accounting for that measured separately