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Re:The real roots of early city states may rip up the textbooks by ThomPete on Saturday October 14, 2017 @06:24PM (#15474661)
It important to remember though that the reason average life was 45-50 was because of all the people who died early in life. If you actually managed to hit 30 there was a good chance you would make it up in your 60-70ies.
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Re:The real roots of early city states may rip up the textbooks by radicaldreamer on Saturday October 14, 2017 @06:54PM (#15474766)
Those are current stats, only 10% of bushmen live past 60.
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Re:The real roots of early city states may rip up the textbooks by jonnycomputer on Saturday October 14, 2017 @10:29PM (#15475546)
most bushmen aren't healthy hunter-gatherers any more.
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