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elbiter@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• sus@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨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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  • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨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

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  • rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨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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