Yea human lifespan hasn’t really changed over time but as you say infant mortality, pandemics, war and a complete lack of industrial safety for over a century have skewed the average over the years.
Yea human lifespan hasn’t really changed over time but as you say infant mortality, pandemics, war and a complete lack of industrial safety for over a century have skewed the average over the years.
squaresinger@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yeah, a lot of people didn’t make it to the point of dieing of old age, but it wasn’t rare to see 80yo or even 90yo people.
People seem to think that a life expectancy of e.g. 45 years means that most people died at age 45, and that’s just plain wrong.