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Anyone who has done their homework knows that this is confounded by higher rates of infant mortality in wild humans... And that if they reach teenage years, hunter/gatherer lifespan is as good as ours with a far superior healthspan.
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most what really brought down the the average age of death was childhood mortality yeah they showed that if you live past the age of 14 your life expectancy was basically the same as it is now exactly without chronic disease with squaring of the mortality curve exactly
they showed that if you live past the age of 14 your life expectancy was basically the same as it is now exactly without chronic disease with squaring of the mortality curve
most what really brought down the the average age of death was childhood mortality
i love that you brought up life expectancy that is such a straw man argument and it's absolutely based on infant mortality and childhood mortality if you look at indigenous cultures i've talked about this previously on the podcast with james clement when we talked about squaring of the morbidity curve and many others on this podcast chris ryan talks about this in civilized to death if you look at indigenous cultures if you look at free living humans who are not domesticated this is the remembering you guys free living humans who have not had the amnesia of 2020 people who remember what it is to be a human you will see that the life expectancy they live until their 70s or 80s they live the same amount of time as us and they live without chronic disease
if you look at the life expectancy of a Hoda hunter gatherer or an a kison hunter gatherer there are only a few tribes remaining on the earth that are true hunter gatherers the Yono in um South America have some um uh some Hunter gather members if you look at their life expectancy if they reach teenage AG years it's the same as ours okay