[askthereception]

So this is the kind of news that one ought to be careful with now that everyone has had a chance to read the Black Swan.

It has probably more to do with genetic drift. You cannot stumble upon a tribe, take some random property they all share, and then make causal inferences from all the other properties they all share. This holds especially when this property correlates with survival of the tribe; it is actually more informative to investigate a group of people with properties that reduce survival, e.g. bad heart conditions.

[flybrand]

Could it be the law of small numbers?

If we broke the world population out into groups the size of this population - one of them would have to be the longest lived. Then we could send reporters there to create a narrative around how they lived.

I like the point that they don’t consume processed foods. As a Celiac, the comments about parasites are interesting (there are some therapeutic approaches here under evaluation).

> “But up until the day they die, the Tsimane are often very healthy.”

Is there a way to measure this?