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bottled_poe
1915 days ago
They also didn’t live to a ripe age.
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rhinoceraptor
1915 days ago
That's a bit of a myth. Life expectancy was vastly less than it is now, but that is because of infant mortality, death in childbirth, lack of emergency medicine, etc. Those that survived all that lived about the same as today, about 70-80 years:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/25434609?seq=1
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marliechiller
1915 days ago
correlation_bias.jpeg
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bottled_poe
1915 days ago
Sure, yet still somehow a stronger argument than the comment I was responding too.
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https://www.jstor.org/stable/25434609?seq=1