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by wkat4242 420 days ago
Don't forget that hunter-gatherers rarely lived much beyond 30. Modern society isn't so bad :)
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This is an incorrect generalization from average life expectancies that include incredibly high infant/childhood mortality.

The life expectancy cited by Wikipedia for the paleolithic is around 39 additional years for those surviving to 15.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy