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elbiter@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You also lived for 32 years, tops, and had 9 children for 3 to survive
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elbiter@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You also lived for 32 years, tops, and had 9 children for 3 to survive
sus@programming.dev 3 weeks 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.
ICastFist@programming.dev 3 weeks 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
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 3 weeks 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.